On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:53:51PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:47 -0400, Bryan M. Kearney @redhat.com wrote: > > # HG changeset patch > > # User "Bryan M. Kearney <bkearney@xxxxxxxxxx>" > > # Date 1214497967 14400 > > # Node ID efba908eb79ad0bf2805c27f784de92578207f1b > > # Parent 63aca2dbb3154a65505b1ccef080a8887742cef5 > > Added a --replace option to virt-image which allows it to replace an existing machine if it is current running or defined > > Couldn't the same be achieved with a small shell script wrapper around > the virt-image invocation, something like > > virsh list | grep -q $NAME && virsh destroy $NAME > virt-image $IMAGE_XML > > It seems that this patch addresses a very specific use case (repeatedly > starting a VM based on the same image.xml) > > Other than that it might be redundant though, the patch looks fine. I thought it was too, however, I realize now that the reason it can';t simply 'redefine' the existing VMs config is that it has the same name but different (randomly generated UUID), causing a clash and error. So it really is useful to explicitly re-define. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
