[libvirt] [PATCH] doc: Fix doc for backingStore

Deepak Shetty dpkshetty at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 13:40:34 UTC 2015


On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/18/2015 03:47 AM, Deepak Shetty wrote:
> > I spent quite some time figuring that backingStore info
> > isn't included in the dom xml, unless guest is up and
> > running. Hopefully putting that in the doc should help.
> >
> > This patch adds that info to the doc.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Deepak C Shetty <deepakcs at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/formatdomain.html.in | 4 +++-
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> > index ab51982..dfd4f3a 100644
> > --- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
> > @@ -2113,7 +2113,9 @@
> >          and only used for output to describe the detected backing
> chains.
> >          <span class="since">Since 1.2.4</span>. An empty
> >          <code>backingStore</code> element means the sibling source is
> > -        self-contained and is not based on any backing store. The
> following
> > +        self-contained and is not based on any backing store. Note that
> > +        <code>backingStore</code> info is included in the output only
> when
> > +        the guest is up and running, otherwise its not included. The
>
> s/its/it's/
>
> > following
>
> We aim to fix that in the future (that is, eventually libvirt will track
> backing information even for offline domains), but until that happens, I
> can agree with documenting the limitation.  I will touch this up and
> push it later today.
>

Thanks, I am sending another patch, with this fix and some more info
(about having backing file format in the snap metadata)

Pls include whichever you think is more appropraite.

thanx,
deepak


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