[libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Clarify the purpose of domxml-from-native (v2)

Dave Allan dallan at redhat.com
Mon Feb 6 22:17:03 UTC 2012


Someone mentioned to me that they interpreted this section of the KVM
driver page as suggesting that new guests should be created by
creating a qemu commandline and converting it to XML with
domxml-from-native.  I don't think that's the intent of
domxml-from-native, so I added that clarification.

v2
Suggstion from eblake: Add link to the applications page
---
 docs/drvqemu.html.in |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/drvqemu.html.in b/docs/drvqemu.html.in
index fa5496c..fc76829 100644
--- a/docs/drvqemu.html.in
+++ b/docs/drvqemu.html.in
@@ -432,9 +432,16 @@ mount -t cgroup none /dev/cgroup -o devices
     <h3><a name="xmlimport">Converting from QEMU args to domain XML</a></h3>

     <p>
-      The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to convert an
-      existing set of QEMU args into a guest description using libvirt Domain XML
-      that can then be used by libvirt.
+      The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to
+      convert an existing set of QEMU args into a guest description
+      using libvirt Domain XML that can then be used by libvirt.
+      Please note that this command is intended to be used to convert
+      existing qemu guests previously started from the command line to
+      be managed through libvirt.  It should not be used a method of
+      creating new guests from scratch.  New guests should be created
+      using an application calling the libvirt APIs (see
+      the <a href="apps.html">libvirt applications page</a> for some
+      examples) or by manually crafting XML to pass to virsh.
     </p>

     <pre>$ cat > demo.args <<EOF
-- 
1.7.7.6




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