Re: Running dom and associated conf file and cmdline

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:55:59AM -0800, jdsw wrote:
> Hi
> 
>    It would be convenient to have access to the config file (full path)
> and the command line  (startup parameters) through xml-rpc (DomInfo) interface. 
>    Currently I have seen, our product and others reading files... and 
> trying to match dom names etc...which is quite error prone and kludgy.

I think you mean you want the ability to see 'inactive'  domains from
from the APIs ?  If so this capability became available when the recent
Xen-API work was merged. If you do an 'xm list' it'll show both running
and inactive guests - the latter have an id of -1. This is only available
in xen-unstable tree & thus will be in 3.0.4 release.

Until then, reading/parsing the config files from /etc/xen is only option.
I've added support for doing just this in libvirt so we can work on older
3.0.2, and 3.0.3 releases, as well as making use of the new APIs in 3.0.4

Regards,
Dan.
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