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On 21-07-2014 14:28, Aline Manera wrote:<br>
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General comments:<br>
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1) I'd like to edit the VM permission when it is running<br>
I think it is possible but it is good to have a input from the
original authors - Sheldon and Cristian<br>
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Sheldon, Cristian, is it possible to set the metadata element
to a running VM?<br>
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It should be. The function "setMetadata" has the parameter "flags"
(the last one, optional) which is used to indicate whether the
change will affect the live VM, the persistent configuration or
both. I haven't tested it, but that should work.<br>
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However I'm not sure how that will work on systems without a libvirt
version which supports the function "setMetadata". Currently, we're
redefining the VM by rewriting its XML description just to update
the metadata information. I'd say that this doesn't affect a live VM
because it's a redefinition, not a VM update. In other words, what
would happen if we redefine a VM XML for anything else (e.g. CPU
count, memory, disk, etc)? Does that change happen on the live VM?
The same thing should happen when updating the metadata via this
method.<br>
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