[libvirt] RFC: take two on live update of network configuration

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Wed Aug 22 04:10:14 UTC 2012


On 08/21/2012 11:55 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:47:03AM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:26:08PM -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
>> [...]
> [...]
>>   So that will work as long as we don't add namespace to the XML
>> Another problem is making sure we have the addressing complete,
>> for example suppose we have
>>     <
>   Oops i didn't finish that argument
>
>   supose we have somewhere
>
>     <foo>
>       ...
>     </foo>
>     <foo>
>       ...
>     </foo>
>
>  first are the element always sorted in a coherent fashion internally
> so that if we do //foo[2] we know which one is pointed at, or if
> we can guarantee order can we guarantee that for all constructs there
> is an identifier like an attribute allowing unique selection (like
> availability of an ip address)
>  My concern is an API with hole, where there is no way to guarantee
> reaching the element we want to modify, and risking touching something
> else. Say for example 2 interface with DHCP and no IP...

That particular example could never happen, but in the general case I
see what you mean.





More information about the libvir-list mailing list