libvirt users - Oct 2014 - Can't specify filename.xml when using virsh dumpxml

Hi all,
Do you have any idea about this error?
virsh # dumpxml csg01win7test > domain.xml
error: unexpected data '>'
Regards,
Allen


2014-10-28



Allen Qiu

On 10/29/2014 10:44 AM, Allen Qiu wrote:
> Hi all,
> Do you have any idea about this error?
> virsh # dumpxml csg01win7test > domain.xml
> error: unexpected data '>'
You are running virsh in interactive mode.  Right now, dumpxml only
outputs to stdout, and '>' only works as a redirection for shell
mode.
So, instead of:

$ virsh
virsh # dumpxml ...

you want to do:

$ virsh dumpxml ... > file

But yes, it would be nice to write a patch to virsh to add an optional
--output=file for each of the dumpxml family of functions, to write
there instead of stdout, so that you can get interactive virsh to output
xml to a file.  Would you like to try your hand at the patch?

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