Editing the description of a running guest will show a dialog that
changes will take effect after the next guest shutdown. However, libvirt
can change the description of a guest while it is running.
Teach virt-manager to edit the description of a running guest without
requiring a shutdown.
---
src/virtManager/details.py | 1 +
src/virtManager/domain.py | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/src/virtManager/details.py b/src/virtManager/details.py
index c53c67f..e57903a 100644
--- a/src/virtManager/details.py
+++ b/src/virtManager/details.py
@@ -2033,6 +2033,7 @@ class vmmDetails(vmmGObjectUI):
desc_widget = self.widget("overview-description")
desc = desc_widget.get_buffer().get_property("text") or ""
add_define(self.vm.define_description, desc)
+ add_hotplug(self.vm.hotplug_description, desc)
return self._change_config_helper(df, da, hf, ha)
diff --git a/src/virtManager/domain.py b/src/virtManager/domain.py
index 82680b8..227e8c1 100644
--- a/src/virtManager/domain.py
+++ b/src/virtManager/domain.py
@@ -813,6 +813,13 @@ class vmmDomain(vmmLibvirtObject):
devobj.passwd = newval or None
self.update_device(devobj)
+ def hotplug_description(self, desc):
+ flags = (libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_LIVE |
+ libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_AFFECT_CONFIG)
+ self._backend.setMetadata(
+ libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_METADATA_DESCRIPTION,
+ desc, None, None, flags)
+
########################
# Libvirt API wrappers #
--
1.7.10.4
