I would like to enhance libvirt's network API to allow enacting any changes in definition immediately, as an alternative to the current behavior of saving the changes right away, but not using them until the next time the network is destroyed and re-started. This could easily be handled by a flag passed to virNetworkDefineXML(). Unfortunately, virNetworkDefineXML() was added to libvirt before we came up with the idea of adding a flags arg to every new API (just for things like this). To remedy this, I've effectively duplicated that API with a new API, virNetworkDefineXMLFlags(), which currently behaves identically, but has an extra "flags" argument. At the end of this patch series, it's still not possible to call virNetworkDefineXMLFlags() with anything other than 0 in flags, butt this gets the API in place, and in use by virsh (although with no extra functionality). A later patchset will add a VIR_NETWORK_DEFINE_AFFECT_LIVE flag and the network driver support behind it. (It almost seems like overkill to split this into so many teeny tiny patches, but this is the currently popular/accepted format for API addition patches.) -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list