[libvirt-users] domain definition storage

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 08:00:19PM +0100, Arik Raffael Funke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I defined several xen domains with libvirt. Can anybody tell me where 
> libvirt stores these definitions? E.g. what files would one need to back up?
> 
> Is it correct, that the xen domain definitions in /var/lib/xend/domains 
> are overwritten regularly by libvirt?

libvirt never directly stores its XML files when talking to Xen - it
always uses one of the two Xen formats as the master database instead.

On Xen <= 3.0.3  libvirt uses the files in /etc/xen 

On Xen > 3.0.3  libvirt uses the native Xen APIs, which result in the 
files being stored in /var/lib/xend/domains instead.

Regards,
Daniel
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