Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Power Hypervisor Support for libvirt - minimum set of features

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:11:20PM -0300, Eduardo Otubo wrote:
> Hello Daniel,
> 
> > I might be missing something, but this database doesn't appear to be
> > persistent at all - it just lives for the duration of the virConnectPtr
> > object's lifetime. So if you create  two connections you'd get two
> > different UUIDs for the same VM.
> 
> Yes, that's right. I thought I could make it work kinda stable before
> make it persistent. 
> 
> And here I have a little question: The way I thought I could make it
> persistent is just to implement the virDomainDefineXML function. This
> way, I would make init__uid_db() check if there is some xml file
> defined, if not just create a new UUID for that lpar.
> 
> But, in this case, virsh/libvirtd could be run from anywhere, so the xml
> file would be in other machine and so on. Then I thought I could create
> the XML in HMC's machine, then I would have a little more control of the
> UUIDs. What do you think?

I think you'd be better with the latter idea if possible - its fairly
important to have stable UUID's no matter where you connect from

Daniel
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