On 2 August 2011 18:28, sethuraman subbiah <sethusubbiah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 2, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [re-adding the list]
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> On 08/02/2011 03:18 PM, sethuraman subbiah wrote:
>>> Libvirt shoots for monthly releases; the current schedule is feature freeze this weekend, then a release around the first of August.
>>>
>>> The new API will allow you do to either:
>>>
>>> virsh dumpxml --inactive --dom> �file.xml
>>> edit file.xml
>>> virsh save dom dom.save --xml file.xml
>>> virsh restore file.save
>>>
>>> or:
>>>
>>> virsh dumpxml --inactive --dom> �file.xml
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> Using --inactive here only works if you haven't made any changes to the inactive configuration that differs from the currently running domain. I'd amend this step to 'virsh dumpxml dom > file.xml' for both of these examples.
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>>> virsh save dom dom.save
>>> edit file.xml
>>> virsh restore file.save --xml file.xml
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> These two examples will be supported in 0.9.4. �Additionally, I added:
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> virsh save-file-dumpxml dom.save > file.xml
> virsh save-file-define dom.save file.xml
> virsh save-file-edit dom.save
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> to do things inline, and to make it so you don't have to remember to 'virsh dumpxml dom' prior to 'virsh save'.
>
I tried changing the disk image and it works fine. But if I try to change the mac address , I get error: unsupported configuration. My aim was to perform cloning and change the mac of the cloned image and also doing some changes inside the vm to make sure it obtains a new ip. Is there a possibility to get this working with the current API ?�
>>Yeah , I was referring to 0.9.4-rc2 :) I will install the official libvirt 0.9.4 tomorrow .
>> I found that the latest libvirt (libvirt 0.9.4) is out.
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> That's amazing, considering it hasn't been released yet :) �Maybe you are referring to 0.9.4-rc2 instead? �But at any rate, the official 0.9.4 will probably be released tomorrow with even more bug fixes above 0.9.4-rc2.
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> > I tried installing in my Centos 5.6 machine. After a successful installation, when I start virsh , I get :I think so, I installed libvirt 0.9.4-rc2 on Centos 6 and it worked fine. I tried installing in Centos 5.6 (It had libvirt already installed through yum) . I did yum remove libvirt. Then I did ./configure --prefix = / , make , make install , ldconfig. When I enter virsh after finishing these steps, I get that error. I am not sure whether I am committing a mistake in-between. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you.
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>> virsh: /lib/libvirt.so.0: version `LIBVIRT_PRIVATE_0.8.2' not found (required by virsh)
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>> Is it possible to get the latest version of libvirt 0.9.4 work on Centos 5.6 ? �Thanks a lot for your help.
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> Yes, it should be possible, although I haven't tried it myself on centos (but I have tried on RHEL 5.7). �Are you sure you installed your self-built libvirt.so correctly? �We take great pains to ensure that libvirt.so is backwards compatible (no symbols are ever removed).
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> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
Thanks a lot for your time.�
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Regards,
Sethuraman Subbiah
Graduate Student - NC state University
M.S in Computer Science�
