From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: VM id in KVM? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:39:33 +0300 Message-ID: <46A4AF95.2070306@qumranet.com> References: <46A48B63.2030202@qumranet.com> <46A48D0E.1040803@de.ibm.com> <46A48E65.6090105@qumranet.com> <46A48ECD.7020809@qumranet.com> <20070723133234.GA31631@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: carsteno-tA70FqPdS9bQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, kvm-devel To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070723133234.GA31631-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > When managing QEMU & KVM guests, libvirt provides 3 identifiers with > varying levels of uniqueness > > - ID - a integer unique amongst all active guests on a host > - Name - a string uninque amongst all active & inactive guests on a host > - UUID - 32 byte hex string unique globally > > Does libvirt also provide a lighter-weight interface that doesn't know about names and uuids? I imagine a cluster-wide management solutions will want to keep all configuration in a central database and just tell libvirt "start a guest with this configuration". -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/