On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 02:53 PM +0200, Pino Toscano <ptoscano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:31:26 CEST Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 06:21:40PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 05/16/2018 05:35 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: […snip…] >> I could suggest a general arg 'virsh start --edit $GUESTNAME' though, >> which takes the current persistent XML, launches it in an editor, >> allowing the user to change the boot order and then starts the guest >> from this temporary editted XML using virDomainCreateXML. This is a >> conceptual fit with the 'virsh edit $GUESTNAME' command we already >> have > > Another option could be instead to implement this "temporarly change & > start" to another tool, that already does XML munging: virt-xml. > In that context, adding options to edit the various bits makes sense, > so only the "edit -> start -> revert" thing would be needed there. > > WDYT? Wouldn’t be a (new) tool 'virt-start' better for that since virt-xml does only the XML manipulation? Thanks for thinking about it. > -- > Pino Toscano -- Beste Grüße / Kind regards Marc Hartmayer IBM Deutschland Research & Development GmbH Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Martina Koederitz Geschäftsführung: Dirk Wittkopp Sitz der Gesellschaft: Böblingen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 243294 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
