Matthias Bolte пишет: > 2012/1/24 <p-man314@xxxxxxx>: > >> Hi. >> >> I'm trying to change network settings for a domain via libvirt (the driver >> is xenapi) with no success. >> >> According to its sources, 'virsh edit' uses virDomainGetXMLDesc(), allows to >> edit the received xml and then use virDomainDefineXML(). In case of xenapi >> driver it leads to a new vm creation (with the same name and edited >> settings). >> > > virDomainDefineXML is the right API function. The problem is that the > XenAPI driver currently has a bug here. It should check (via UUID and > name) if the domain XML refers to an existing domain and update this > domain or the if the given domain XML doesn't refer to an existing > domain and define a new one instead. > > The XenAPI driver does not check this and always defines a new domain. > > So unfortunately you cannot edit the config of an existing domain > until this bug is fixed, > Thank you for your explanations. Could you please provide a reference to this bug in the bugzilla? > You might be able to workaround this bug by undefining the domain > first and then redefining it. > > Unfortunately undefining and redefining destroys storage of a vm, at least with xenapi.
