On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:26:07AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > In my previous email Daniel made clear that for many functions it is > preferable to have access to the XML output. I would like to know what the > general opinion is about defining a domain. > > I can understand that people don't mind to define a domain manually or > with tools and pump it inside libvirt with the virDomainDefineXML call. > > But why are the XML tree manipulating features not incorporated into the > API? Slightly more 'semantics based' than Attach/Detach Device. Allowing > to specify the information that is going into the XML. Believe me, I loathe XML for this purpose too. It defeats type safety, encourages random 'extension' and is impossible to check if the drivers conform. Nevertheless changing it now is a lot of extra work for not much immediate benefit. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list