[libvirt] virDomainSetMetadata --> qemuDomainSetMetadata

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:33:34PM +0000, SHAH, Ronak (Ronak R) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have requirement to add <metadata> tag into the libvirt XML from the application.
> While calling virDomainSetMetadata which internally call qemuDomainSetMetadata (correct me here if I am wrong),
> I am getting following error:
> 
> qemuDomainSetMetdata:12623 : argument unsupported: QEMU driver does not support<metadata> element
> 
> Support for setting and getting <metadata> with special namespace is deliberately added in 0.9.10 of libvirt and I am using 0.9.13.
> I am surprise that the internal qemu driver is still cribbing out it.

The QEMU driver does support the <metadata> element, but only if you
specify it when defining the XML as a whole (eg virDomainDefine). For
unknown reasons, the qemuDomainSetMetdata was not implemented to allow
for live updating of the <metadata>.

Daniel
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