[libvirt-users] Questions on how to reset ID numbers for virt Guests.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:47:07AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 11/09/2013 00:27, James Sparenberg ha scritto:
> > I'm doing some experimenting in our Development lab and as a result
> > I'm kickstarting over and over Virtual guests.  This is of course
> > causing the guest Id to increment by one with each test.  I've
> > googled around and tried searching the list but have not found out
> > how (if at all) it would be possible to reset the ID number back to 1
> > more than is in use.  Also is there  a limit where I run out of ID's?
> > (for example does it only go up to 99?)
> 
> No, there is no limit.

Well, 'int' will wrap eventually, but you'd need to have created
a hell of alot of guests for that to be a problem :-)

> I don't know the answer to your other question, so I'm adding the
> libvirt-users mailing list.

If you restart libvirtd, it reset itself to start allocating IDs
at the max current used ID of any running guest.


Daniel
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