On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 05:53:51PM +0000, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 12:47 -0400, Bryan M. Kearney @redhat.com wrote:
> > # HG changeset patch
> > # User "Bryan M. Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> > # Date 1214497967 14400
> > # Node ID efba908eb79ad0bf2805c27f784de92578207f1b
> > # Parent  63aca2dbb3154a65505b1ccef080a8887742cef5
> > Added a --replace option to virt-image which allows it to replace an 
> > existing machine if it is current running or defined
> 
> Couldn't the same be achieved with a small shell script wrapper around
> the virt-image invocation, something like
> 
>         virsh list | grep -q $NAME && virsh destroy $NAME
>         virt-image $IMAGE_XML
>         
> It seems that this patch addresses a very specific use case (repeatedly
> starting a VM based on the same image.xml)
> 
> Other than that it might be redundant though, the patch looks fine.

I thought it was too, however, I realize now that the reason it can';t
simply 'redefine' the existing  VMs config is that it has the same name
but different (randomly generated UUID), causing a clash and error. So
it really is useful to explicitly re-define.

Daniel
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