[libvirt-users] where is the libvirt.xml ?

[suyi wang]

Thanks! I get it!

Thanks again for your help!

2012/3/8 Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>

> On 03/08/2012 02:04 AM, Osier Yang wrote:
> > On 03/08/2012 11:47 AM, suyi wang wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all:
> >>        My OS is now Fedora16 , and the spice server is installed on it
> >> by rpms. Then I run 'qemu-kvm -hda /root/vaddsoft.img -m 512 -vga qxl
> >> -spice port=5930,disable-ticketing' , I want to find out where is the
> >> libvirt.xml for the command .  Well , I mean that the libvirt.xml is
> >> genrated automatically,  not by myself manually.
> >>       Wish your help! Thanks a lot!
> >
> > If you start a guest with qemu command line directly, there
> > is no libvirt XML for it, libvirt doesn't try to manage
> > guest which is not created through libvirt API.
>
> However, you  _can_ teach libvirt about certain guests started directly
> by qemu; the 'virsh qemu-attach' command can attach to guests that were
> properly started with a socket monitor.
>
> >
> > For a guest created through libvirt, and it's persistent,
> > the persistent XML is stored in /etc/libvirt/qemu/, and
> > the running state XML is in /var/run/libvirt/qemu/, and
>
> Note that these files are to be treated as read-only.  If you want to
> modify the guest, you must not edit these files, but instead should use
> commands like 'virsh edit' for the persistent definition, and hotplug
> actions like 'virsh add-device' for the live definition.
>
> > you would see the generated qemu command line by libvirt
> > either by
> >
> > # ps -ef | grep qemu
> >
> > # cat /var/log/libvirt/qemu/$guest.log
>
> --
> Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>


-- 
Yours.
suyi
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