On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:39:33PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > >When managing QEMU & KVM guests, libvirt provides 3 identifiers with > >varying levels of uniqueness > > > > - ID - a integer unique amongst all active guests on a host > > - Name - a string uninque amongst all active & inactive guests on a host > > - UUID - 32 byte hex string unique globally > > Does libvirt also provide a lighter-weight interface that doesn't know > about names and uuids? I imagine a cluster-wide management solutions > will want to keep all configuration in a central database and just tell > libvirt "start a guest with this configuration".
Name is mandatory, if you omit the UUID it will generate one for its own internal tracking purposes. You can also create a guest without having to pre-define a config file - it will disappear with no trace once the guest is shutdown. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
