[libvirt] persistent->transient [was: [PATCH 8/8] UndefineFlags: Extend virsh undefine to support new flag]

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Fri Jul 15 13:01:15 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:25:43AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/13/2011 09:56 PM, Osier Yang wrote:
> >>> -=item B<undefine>  I<domain-id>
> >>> +=item B<undefine>  I<domain-id>  optional I<--undefine-managed-state>
> >>>
> >>>   Undefine the configuration for an inactive domain. Since it's not
> >>> running
> >>>   the domain name or UUID must be used as the I<domain-id>.
> >> Oh, this is different than libvirt.c, which claimed you can run
> >> 'undefine' on a running persistent domain.  Which is it?  Can undefine
> >> make a running domain transient, or must it be on an inactive domain?
> > 
> > No, document in libvirt.c is not correct, undefining on a running domain
> > will be refused.
> 
> I argue that we found a bug in the qemu driver then.
> 
> Right now, you can use 'virDomainDefineXML' to convert a transient guest
> into a persistent one, but there is no counterpart operation to convert
> a persistent guest back into a transient one.
> 
> That is, I think the libvirt.c docs are right in implying that you can
> 'undefine' a running domain, and that the qemu driver needs to be fixed
> to allow this use case.
> 
> Either Dan, do you want to weigh in on this API question?

  I also side on the side that it should be allowed and it's "just"
a qemu driver bug :-)

Daniel

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