[libvirt] [PATCH] repeat lookup by name in LookupByID

[Daniel Veillard]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:54:25PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 03:53:29PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:10:21PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > 
> > > Yes, the documentation is wrong - all inactive VMs have an ID
> > > of -1, and thus lookup-by-ID is nonsensical for inactive VMs. 
> > > 
> > > If any application did make use of this change which falls back to
> > > lookup-by-name, then it would only ever work with OpenVZ and not
> > > any of the other libvirt drivers, which isn't useful behaviour.
> > [...]
> > > >   Then the virLookupById description must be updated, I'm not against it,
> > > > but we need to be coherent.
> > > 
> > > Indeed, the docs need to be clarified.
> > 
> >   okay, what about
> >    * Try to find a domain based on the hypervisor ID number
> >    * Note that this won't work for inactive domains which have an ID of -1,
> >    * in that case a lookup based on the Name or UUId need to be done instead.
> > 
> > and then revert that specific part of the patch, as attached. Also 
> > I would make a 'make rebuild' in the doc directory and push the doc update
> 
> Yep, that gets my vote
> 

  okay, done :-)

Daniel

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