Thanks Ján! >What were the exact changes you were trying to make?
I was following this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Passing_keyboard/mouse_via_Evdev Specifically, I was updating the domain tag to include `xmlns:qemu=' http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'` >both call virDomainDefineXMLFlags under the hood. That is good to know, thanks for the explanation. I appreciate the help, if you have any suggestions I'm happy to hear them Josh On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 2:16 AM Ján Tomko <jto...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:06:48AM -0500, Josh Mcneil wrote: > >This may be user error, I am new to libvirt. > > > > Welcome, > > >I am using libvirt 5.0.0. I have created a VM (win10) in the system URI > >using virt-manager. I stopped the VM to edit it. > > > >I set my LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI="qemu:///system" and am able to read the > >domain configuration with `EDITOR=nano virsh edit win10`. When I save > >(ctrl+o) and exit (ctrl+x) I see the message "Domain win10 XML > >configuration edited." as expected. > > that means libvirt successfully parsed the changed XML file. > The elements libvirt does not parse will not appear in the changed > configuration. Usually those should get caught by the schema validation, > but it's not perfect. > > What were the exact changes you were trying to make? > > >However, when I run the edit command > >again the changes do not appear to have persisted. > > > >I have tried starting and stopping the VM. I read that I may need to > define > >the domain with virsh so I did that. None of these things seem to work. > > Calling 'virsh define' with the same domain name and UUID in the XML and > 'virsh edit' is equivalent - both call virDomainDefineXMLFlags under the > hood. > > Jano > > > > >I would appreciate it if someone could help me solve this issue in order > to > >be able to modify domains from virsh! > > > >Thanks in advance for any help! > > > >Josh > > >_______________________________________________ > >libvirt-users mailing list > >libvirt-users@redhat.com > >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users > >
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