On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:11:09AM +0200, Arik Raffael Funke wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >>I read that libvirt can convert XM <-> XML and though I could export my > >>current config to XM format, edit it and reimport. How is is done with > >>libvirt? > > > >To dump XML use > > > > virsh dumpxml [id|name|uuid] > [xmlfile] > > > >To reload it then use > > > > virsh define [xmlfile] > > Ok. That part I knew already. But does libvirt not also allow to convert > the created xml configuration file to a XM configuration file? I.e. the > type of config file that was traditionally used? At least in that I > could define the pci delegation and start a virtual machine from it... Not as it stands, no. If we run against Xen 3.0.3 or earlier we do have code which reads/writes to /etc/xen files. For Xen 3.0.4 or later we use XenD's own APIs for managing inactive guest configs since they're more reliable than our hacked parser for /etc/xen files. Unfortunately i don't think XenD can export its inactive guests in the old /etc/xen format either. In retrospect it might have been better if when defining a new inactive guest, we used XenD's APIs *and* wrote the file to /etc/xen to try and get the best of both worlds. Now if you had a FC6 host handy, you could take the XML from FC7 and use 'virsh define' on the FC6 box to create the file in /etc/xen, and get a reasonable approximation. 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 -=| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list