[libvirt] some unsorted questions

[Stefan de Konink]

Hi,


Currently I'm working on my webserver thingie. And I notice some 
annoying error messages. Generally I use a predefined host to do the 
basic setup of defining a domain. So a client can shoot its XML directly 
into a post request, or we set it up by parsing some parameters from the 
URI.

Now personally I think it is smart to check if a domain is already 
defined, or in use. If this is not the case libvirtd and the client get 
this message:

libvir: Xen Daemon error : GET operation failed:


That doesn't seem to fit the scenario at all :) Why does lookupbyname 
behave so bad?


Secondly; I am a bit distracted by the domids concept. These ids are not 
available before a domain is launched. I think it would be interesting 
to allow signed values. In this way the 'defined' not active domains 
would get a negative value and a running domain a positive value. (Dom0 
gets 0)  This would have far less implications than using an uuid 
through the codebase consistently (not speaking the about the extra 
overhead).

If this gets implemented I would suggest a call that fetches all domains 
from a running system and not only the defined or only the active ones.



Stefan