[libvirt] [PATCH] virsh: add --start option to the define command

[Doug Goldstein]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Peter Krempa <pkrempa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/18/13 06:11, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 04:41:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 01/08/2013 02:36 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I often find myself doing virsh "define blah.xml; start blah". I
>>>>> figured
>>>>> adding this would be a easier^Hlazier way to do it.
>>>>> ---
>>>>>   tools/virsh-domain.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>>   1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>>
>
>> I'd like to still add "virsh define --start" in the end. Possibly when
>> --start is passed, virsh would actually call virDomainCreateXML(). My
>> feeling is that virsh started out really demoing the API but its
>> really a fundamental user tool now and we should strive to make it
>> friendly to use.
>
>
> I think that the original version of your patch is usable although it's
> lacking documentation in the man page. If you mind reposting it with that
> added it might be a intermediate road until somebody will be motivated
> enough to add the flag for virDomainCreateXML.
>
> Peter
>
>

Locally I've implemented VIR_DOMAIN_START_PERSISTENT for
virDomainCreateXML() and the qemu driver. I'm tweaking virsh to call
that when you do virsh define --start instead of virDomainDefine().

It still needs some massaging and docs fix ups locally before I'm
ready to push it for review. But basically there's:

virsh create --persistent domain.xml
virsh define --start domain.xml

I'll let you guys decide what parts you want to keep and what parts you don't.

-- 
Doug Goldstein