[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: help: Drop 'id' from possible values for <domain> argument

[Erik Skultety]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 09:29:54AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:01:45AM +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > At the moment, we can only rename inactive domains.
> >
> > Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490164
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Theoretically, we could also remove this check from qemu_driver.c as it's a
> > useless check, given that a VM which passes the 'active' check is going to be a
> > persistent domain:
> >
> > if (!vm->persistent) {
> >     virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_INVALID, "%s",
> >                    _("cannot rename a transient domain"));
> >     goto endjob;
> > }
> >
> > Also, virshCommandOptDomainBy could be used instead of virshCommandOptDomain in
> > this case, but we might as well enable rename for active domains as well, who
> > knows and I don't think this is worth any more attention that just a help string
> > tweak.
> >
> >  tools/virsh-domain.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/virsh-domain.c b/tools/virsh-domain.c
> > index f235c66b0..84c8dccae 100644
> > --- a/tools/virsh-domain.c
> > +++ b/tools/virsh-domain.c
> > @@ -10151,7 +10151,7 @@ static const vshCmdInfo info_domrename[] = {
> >  };
> >
> >  static const vshCmdOptDef opts_domrename[] = {
> > -    VIRSH_COMMON_OPT_DOMAIN_FULL,
> > +    VIRSH_COMMON_OPT_DOMAIN(N_("domain name or uuid")),
> >      {.name = "new-name",
> >       .type = VSH_OT_DATA,
> >       .flags = VSH_OFLAG_REQ,
>
> NACK.
>
> Virsh is a tool that runs client side, where as the check for non-running
> status is done server side. An old virsh may be talking to a new libvirtd
> which allows it for running guests. IOW, virsh should not make this kind
> of assumption about the QEMU driver impl

Do-oh! I clearly don't "libvirt" anymore, you're right, thanks.

Erik

>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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