On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:43:25PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange schreef: > >On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:54:11AM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote: > >>DP: Would a patch be accepted that makes this configurable for *all* > >>implementations? So that by after configuration a file is saved, and is > >>queried after the platform specific implementation doesn't list the > >>domain as defined? > >> > >>List Defined domains: > >> - Query current implementation > >> - If defined merge all non available domains. > >> > >>In principle what I want to see is that if a domain is not defined in > >>the specific hypervisor, the domain file can be queried. I know I can > >>implement this behavior in my own code, but I really thing this would be > >>a cool thing for more people. > > > >This doesn't make any sense. We have APIs for listing & defining inactive > >domains. The individual drivers implement these APIs according to the > >required API contract, and the underlying impl is not something which any > >application using libvirt need know or care about. If your application is > >relying on the inactive domains being stored in files it is broken. > > Or you could say that libvirt is broken because it isn't able to > distribute the inactive domains across the network in a consistent way.
No, because that is not libvirt's job. The goal of libvirt is to provide an API for managing virtualization capabilities on a host. Data center or network management is an application level problem, out of scope for libvirt. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
