[libvirt] [libvirt-php] About the inconsistency in libvirt-php

[Michal Novotny]

On 02/22/2011 10:21 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:12:03PM +0800, Lyre wrote:
>>>   WARNING: In previous releases of libvirt-php, the function
>>> libvirt_list_defined_domains()
>>>            was returning the wrong kind of information.  It *should* have
>>> been showing all
>>>            persistent domains, both active and inactive.  However it was
>>> instead showing
>>>            just inactive domains.
>>
>> Hi justin, Is there a way to list the "defined/persistent" domains in
>> libvirt?
>> virConenctListDefinedDomains() doesn't behavior like that.
>>
>> I'm really amazed, the behavior of "defined" in libvirt development guide
>> seems to be equivalent to "inactive".
> There are two types of guest
>
>   - Persistent: This has a config file on disk. It will appear
>     either in the ListDefinedDomains or ListDomains, depending
>     on whether it is currently running
>   - Transient: This has *no* config on disk. It will only appear
>     in ListDomains and will disappear completely when it is
>     shutdown.
>
> Every inactive domain is thus a persistent domain. A running domain can
> be either transient or persistent. There is a virDomainIsPersistent()
> API to distinguish them.
>
> Daniel
That's what I was thinking Daniel. Thanks for clarification. I didn't 
know about virDomainIsPersistent() API but it could be useful.

Thanks for your reply,
Michal

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Michal Novotny<minovotn at redhat.com>, RHCE
Virtualization Team (xen userspace), Red Hat