[Libvir] Create domU without any disks

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Thu Nov 29 16:31:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 05:18:20PM +0100, Tim Verhoeven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm working on RHEL5.1 (libvirt-0.2.3-9.el5). I would like to know if
> it is possible, using libvirt, to create a Xen PVM domU that has no
> disks? And if this is possible how to code this ( a simple example is
> ok).
> 
> I can create a configfile for "xm create ..." that works (just use
> "disk = [ ]"). But I also need to do this koan (companion to cobbler)
> and it uses libvirt.

  Well libvirt can dump XML for existing Xen domains, use
    virsh dumpxml domainname
even if you used xm to create the domain.
Now I suppose you will just end up with a dump without any <disk>
entry in <devices> (but you will have a network one at least),

Daniel

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