[libvirt-users] [API reference] Are there XML-handling API to retrieve info directly from xml configure file

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:09:35PM +0800, Zhihua Che wrote:
> 在 2012年4月18日 下午5:47，Zhihua Che <zhihua.che at gmail.com> 写道：
> > 在 2012年4月18日 下午5:31，Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> 写道：
> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:24:24AM +0800, Zhihua Che wrote:
> >>>    I guess I miss another thing. I thought the domain xml config file
> >>> was stored in etc/libvirt/qemu/ directory.
> >>
> >> libvirt manages the config files.  To edit them, DON'T edit them
> >> directly, use 'virsh edit'.
> >>
> >> Rich.
> >>
> 
> Correction
> 
>  I agree with you. But I wanna know where libvirt stores all the domains'
>  config files.
>  Image that if I uninstalled libvirt and reinstalled it, I wish I could
>  manipulate all the previous domains.

All the persistent configs are under /etc/libvirt

When a guest is running, there is a second config stored in /var/run/libvirt

Regards,
Daniel
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