[Libvir] Any API available for renaming the guest OS

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Tue Mar 4 10:47:08 UTC 2008


On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 11:43:10AM +0530, Ajishrao.r wrote:
> xm has rename option, without reboot.

Right, but not in the manpage.

> Is theirs any specific reason why we don't have rename API?

Not particularly, just waiting for a patch.

The QEMU driver looks like it could be easily modified to support
changing the name, which is just stored within a memory structure
qemud_vm_def.

Rich.

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