The 10/10/11, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/10/2011 03:52 PM, Alex wrote: > >I made this change by editing the xml, restarting libvirtd, then using > >virsh to define the xml file and received this message: <...> > >Have I done something wrong, or am I missing something? > > Yes, you goofed by directly editing /etc/libvirt. By doing that, > you are going behind libvirt's back - if your edits happen to work, > then a libvirtd restart will use them, but if you introduce a typo > or other problem, then it is your fault that libvirt can't get > things to work. If you had instead gone through the libvirt API > (such as by using 'virsh edit bwimail02'), then libvirt would do > some sanity checking up front and refuse to install your changes > unless they were safe. Which is comunterintuitive, IMHO. Admins are used to edit configuration files in /etc because most software are designed this way. Files not designed to be edited may stand in /var. At least, current files in /etc could have a header with comments from preventing manual edition and tips on how to deal to change configuration. ,-p -- Nicolas Sebrecht
