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

Viktor Mihajlovski mihajlov at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jan 9 08:24:39 UTC 2013


On 01/09/2013 12:41 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> But if we do that, it would argue that 'virsh create --persistent
> blah.xml' is nicer than 'virsh define --start blah.xml', at least in
> that the former needs only 1 API call for new libvirt (but falls back to
> 2 API calls when talking to older libvirt), while the latter always
> needs 2 API calls.
virsh create --persistent is more natural to me especially w.r.t
usability, i.e. virsh create --persistent --console blah.xml vs.
virsh define --start --console blah.xml. (also consider --paused,
--autodestroy).

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