Urs Golla urs.golla@gmail.com writes:
Hi Markus
Thanks for your reply!
Because it's not XML.
That really explains a lot ;-)
;)
I always assumed the "legacy" format from /etc/xen/mydomainconfig (like in RHEL 5) is the native XEN syntax (I see this is not the case.). So, the xml format from libvirt is like a replacement for the configuration in /etc/xen/mydomainconfig? But if I use virt-install (e.g. in Fedora 8) to install a new machine, it does not create a file /etc/xen/ and also no xml. All It does is creating the s-expression file in /var/lib/.
Is there a documentation about the relation between all this different XEN / libvirt configuration files? The architecture part of the documentation on libvirt.org does not answer this question.
cheers
Xen uses *two* native configuration file formats: S-expressions and a Python-like syntax. The .sxp files you found below /var/lib/xend/ use the former syntax, the guest configuration in /etc/xen the latter.
I'd recommend to stick to libvirt as much as possible. Check "man virsh", in particular the domain commands "dumpxml" and "define".