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authorDave Allan <dallan@redhat.com>2012-02-06 17:17:03 -0500
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2012-02-06 15:57:34 -0700
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Clarify the purpose of domxml-from-native
Someone mentioned to me that they interpreted this section of the KVM driver page as suggesting that new guests should be created by creating a qemu commandline and converting it to XML with domxml-from-native. I don't think that's the intent of domxml-from-native, so I added that clarification.
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@@ -432,9 +432,16 @@ mount -t cgroup none /dev/cgroup -o devices
<h3><a name="xmlimport">Converting from QEMU args to domain XML</a></h3>
<p>
- The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to convert an
- existing set of QEMU args into a guest description using libvirt Domain XML
- that can then be used by libvirt.
+ The <code>virsh domxml-from-native</code> provides a way to
+ convert an existing set of QEMU args into a guest description
+ using libvirt Domain XML that can then be used by libvirt.
+ Please note that this command is intended to be used to convert
+ existing qemu guests previously started from the command line to
+ be managed through libvirt. It should not be used a method of
+ creating new guests from scratch. New guests should be created
+ using an application calling the libvirt APIs (see
+ the <a href="apps.html">libvirt applications page</a> for some
+ examples) or by manually crafting XML to pass to virsh.
</p>
<pre>$ cat &gt; demo.args &lt;&lt;EOF