[libvirt] [libvirt-php] bug in libvirt_domain_change_vcpus()

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Sep 10 08:09:54 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 06:51:54PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote:
> Hi Olivier,
> this is not really a bug as it's intended. The
> libvirt_domain_change_vcpus() is not the same as (yet unimplemented)
> virDomainSetVcpus() API so it's not bug. I realize that naming could be
> a little confusing so if you like, feel free to rename
> libvirt_domain_change_vcpus() to libvirt_domain_xml_change_vcpus() as
> this API should be used to change number of vCPUS in the domain XML
> itself and implement libvirt_domain_set_vcpus() calling real
> virDomainSetVcpus() API function.

That function is also buggy in that it will silently turn a transient
guest into a persistent guest, which is almost certainly not what a
caller would expect

Daniel
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