On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 21:37 +0200, Marina Danial wrote: > I need write the domain XML in libvirt to eventually convert > it into these qemu commands.. I don't want to call qemu > directly with these commands. So I needed assistance with > that If you're dead set on executing QEMU with those options, and *only* those options, then libvirt is quite simply not the tool you're looking for. When you use libvirt, by definition you're giving up fine-grained control of the specific options passed to the underlying hypervisor and trust libvirt to translate an high-level virtual hardware definition (guest XML) into an appropriate QEMU command line. Just to give you an example of why libvirt will never be able to build exactly the command line you provided, we rely on the QEMU monitor to eg. perform device hotplug, so you will never see a QEMU process spawned by libvirt that lacks the '-mon' option. So your options are basically: 1) switch to libvirt and accept the fact that your QEMU command lines will be quite a bit more verbose than they currently are 2) keep spawning QEMU processes with hand-crafted command lines I would of course recommend going for 1), as that will allow you to use all of libvirt's features down the line, when it eventually turns out you need them ;) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
