On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 08:57:33PM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 14:14 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > 3. We could just use virDomainCreate() to start installer, and try to > > use virDomainDefine() to write the long term config - the latter > > call will fail though because there will already be a running guest > > with that name. > > I think I'd expect to be able to call virDomainDefine() to change an > active domain's config without affecting it until it restarts. In fact a little good news. I've just re-checked Xen 3.0.4 and this does indeed work. You can start a guest, and then change its config at will using virDomainDefine. Its just my hand-crafted 3.0.3 inactive domain driver which doesn't let this work - which I can trivially fix. So this thread looks like it may in fact be a non-issue. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|