[libvirt-users] [API reference] Are there XML-handling API to retrieve info directly from xml configure file

[Zhihua Che]

在 2012年4月18日 下午6:13，Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> 写道：
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 06:09:35PM +0800, Zhihua Che wrote:
>> 在 2012年4月18日 下午5:47，Zhihua Che <zhihua.che at gmail.com> 写道：
>> > 在 2012年4月18日 下午5:31，Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> 写道：
>> >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 10:24:24AM +0800, Zhihua Che wrote:
>> >>>    I guess I miss another thing. I thought the domain xml config file
>> >>> was stored in etc/libvirt/qemu/ directory.
>> >>
>> >> libvirt manages the config files.  To edit them, DON'T edit them
>> >> directly, use 'virsh edit'.
>> >>
>> >> Rich.
>> >>
>>
>> Correction
>>
>>  I agree with you. But I wanna know where libvirt stores all the domains'
>>  config files.
>>  Image that if I uninstalled libvirt and reinstalled it, I wish I could
>>  manipulate all the previous domains.
>
> All the persistent configs are under /etc/libvirt
>
> When a guest is running, there is a second config stored in /var/run/libvirt
>

I thought so. But I removed config file uder working/etc/libvirt and
It sill worked.
By the way, I installed my libvirt under directory working. Of course
I searched the whole system and found no other config files.