[libvirt-users] Using alias under disk in XML

[Michal Privoznik]

On 03/29/2018 05:10 PM, Andre Goree wrote:
> I've been trying to follow the information found here [1] in order to
> provide an alias for RBD disks I'm defining, however it does not appear
> to be working and I wanted to see if I was doing something wrong.
> 
> I define the alias like so (using 'virsh edit'):
> 
>     <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>       <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'
> error_policy='stop' discard='unmap'/>
>       ...truncated...
>       <alias name='ua-test'/>
>     </disk>
> 
> However, when I then 'virsh dumpxml {guest}', the alias is not there. 
> There is no error given after my edits are made and saved.  It just
> seems that libvirt is completely ignoring or removing my changes,
> without reason.
> 
> Can anyone give any insight on why this might be happening, and/or help
> me with the proper way of defining the alias?
> 

This feature was introduced in 3.9.0 release. You need to upgrade in
order to use the feature.

Michal