On 09/25/2014 10:08 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 09/25/14 14:59, Michal Privoznik wrote: > >>> (3) I just realized that a domain's name can change during its lifetime. >> >> Well, the only moment that we support that is migration. Otherwise the >> name can't be changed (it's not only varstore path that's derived from >> domain's name, consider snapshots, socket names, ...). > > Ah! I didn't know this. It's very interesting because virt-manager in > fact offers you to rename the VM -- the Details | Overview | Name field > is editable, not just a label. (The UUID *is* a label.) Yeah and virt-manager's support is basically a hack, since rename won't happen if there's nvram, or managed save, or snapshots for example. But the virt-manager support predates those bits, when rename wasn't too problematic. We really just need a proper 'rename' API that handles migrating all the hidden stuff that is dependent on VM name. - Cole -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list