[libvirt] [PATCH v3 0/5] domainRename API implementation

Tomas Meszaros exo at tty.sk
Tue Aug 11 05:57:38 UTC 2015


On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 15:02:03 -0600
Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com> wrote:

> On 08/10/2015 01:59 PM, Tomas Meszaros wrote:
> > This is an effort to implement domain rename API. Presented patch
> > series consists of the following: virDomainRename API
> > implementation for qemu, implementation of the virsh command
> > domrename and the additional support code.
> >
> > The idea behind this endeavor is to provide convenient and safe way
> > to rename a domain.
> >
> > Instead of the:
> >
> >      virsh dumpxml domain > domain.xml
> >      (change domain name in domain.xml)
> >      virsh undefine domain
> >      virsh define domain.xml
> >
> > user can simply type:
> >
> >      virsh domrename foo bar
> >
> > or call virDomainRename() API and domain "foo" will be renamed to
> > "bar".
> 
> Cool! Although I haven't reviewed it closely, this series is looking
> good. But I do have one small question: Do you have the time and
> energy to provide an implementation for the Xen libxl driver? :-).
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> 

Hi Jim,

If everything goes alright with this series and it gets merged, I can
definitely look into adding support for other drivers.


Tomas




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