[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#709281: Bug#709281: documentation: libvirtd restart does not affect transient domains

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:02:02PM +0200, Ferenc Wágner wrote:
> Package: libvirt-bin
> Version: 0.9.12-11
> Severity: minor
> 
> Hi,
> 
> libvirtd(8) states that on restart "any guests whose XML configuration
> has not been defined will be lost from the configuration."  But transient
> guests (whose configuration has not been defined as they were started by
> the create command in virsh for example) are definitely picked up by
> libvirtd after restart, just like the persistent ones.  I really like this
> behaviour, but the documentation makes me nervous: is this feature not
> supported or is the documentation outdated?  I hope it is the latter, so
> please consider fixing the manual page if so.

Since the domain state is preserved in /var/lib/libvirt the
documentation seems to be outdated. This is true for qemu. I'm not sure
if this holds for all supported hypervisors.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> Thanks,
> Feri.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.0
>   APT prefers stable
>   APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
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