On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:08:46 -0500 Cole Robinson <crobinso@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 02/21/2011 03:23 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > Hi, now, with qemu, virsh attach-disk doesn't work with inactive disks and > > we need to edit XML with virsh edit. > > IIUC, libvirt and virsh is designed as it is. > > > > But I want to modify domain XML via commandline tools > > - for middleware, which modify domains by scripting. > > - for concsoles, where curses can't work correctly. > > - for me, I can't remember XML definition detaisl ;) > > > > So, I write one. > > > > Following script is a script for modify domain XML and allows > > - add disks > > - delete disks > > - show list of disks > > > > I think most of elements defined in http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsDisks > > is supported. But I'm an only qemu user and didn't test with Xen and other VMs. > > > > What I wanted to hear opinions as 'RFC' is > > - Can this be shipped with libvirt as one of a tool ? (with more documents) > > (If so, we'll write other scripts for cpu,network,memory,etc...) > > > > - If not, what is the best way other than making this as my house script ? > > I'm grad if this is shipped with libvirt is because catching new definition > > of XML is easy. > > > > - Doesn't this one work with your environment ? > > > > > > Thanks for taking a stab at this, I've been meaning to start a similar tool > for some time. However, you should be able to leverage virtinst to accomplish > nearly all the XML parsing, and reuse existing virt-install command line > options and documentation. Additionally the tool could build or edit any > arbitrary domain XML and wouldn't be specific to disks. > Thank you, that's the information I wanted to hear ...where this kind of command should be packaged into. I'll look virt-inst package. And, as I wrote, this is just an example, we'll support all cpu,memory,interface,usb etc.... Do you think should all be supported by 'a' command ? or by a set of commands ? [at modify cpu] % virt-modify --cpu ..... or % virt-cpu-modify ..... > Take a look at tests/xmlparse.py in the virtinst repo to see how the parsing > works and what it's capable of. > Thanks. We'll look into. Regards, -Kame -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list