On 04/21/2011 11:01 AM, Kenni Lund wrote: > 2011/4/21 Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On 04/21/2011 06:11 AM, David McGuffey wrote: >>> redlibvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log >>> output: qemu: could not open disk image /dev/hda >> >> You should not need to do anything in virsh to dump a file ... there >> should be an xml file in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ for every VM already. > > The XML-files in /etc/libvirt/qemu represent libvirt defined VMs, you > should never edit these files directly while the libvirtd service is > running. You should either use 'virsh edit [vm_name]' or alternatively > virsh dump followed by virsh define. If you edit the file directly > while some manager is running (like virt-manager in CentOS), your > changes will most likely conflict with, or get overwritten by, > virt-manager. Nothing critical should happen, but I don't see any > reason for encouraging doing it The Wrong Way(TM). OK ... I just turn off libvirtd and edit the file, then restart libvirtd and start the VM. I am an old school SysIII unix admin, so I just edit files by hand all the time. If it is wrong, then I guess doing it right is OK. Though dumping and importing seem much harder than vi to me.
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