So we refer to terms 'persistent' and 'transient' across the whole man page, without explicitly stating that domain created via the 'create' command is in fact transient and will vanish once destroyed. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/virsh.pod | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index c13f96f22..14a01e9ba 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -652,6 +652,11 @@ of open file descriptors which should be pass on into the guest. The file descriptors will be re-numbered in the guest, starting from 3. This is only supported with container based virtualization. +Note that a domain created using this command is transient (temporary), meaning +that such a domain simply disappears once shut off or destroyed and any +subsequent attempts to B<start> it will fail. See B<define> command on how to +make a domain persistent. + B<Example> virsh dumpxml <domain> > domain.xml -- 2.13.3 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
