[libvirt-users] domain definition storage

[Arik Raffael Funke]

Hi Daniel,

> libvirt never directly stores its XML files when talking to Xen - it
> always uses one of the two Xen formats as the master database instead.
...snipp...
> On Xen>  3.0.3  libvirt uses the native Xen APIs, which result in the
> files being stored in /var/lib/xend/domains instead.

So if I change the files in /var/lib/xend/domains manually, the changes 
should stick, right? I tried that and occasionally the files revert to 
the previous version.

Could it be that the respective VM (or virt-manager?) must not be 
running while changing the domain configuration files? Does libvirt or 
xen store the domain configuration in memory while the machine/gui is 
running and write it back to the configuration file when the machine/gui 
shuts down?

Thank,
Arik