On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 09:22:37PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > 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. Good :-) Daniel -- Red Hat Virtualization group http://redhat.com/virtualization/ Daniel Veillard | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ veillard@xxxxxxxxxx | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/