[et-mgmt-tools] Re: edge case with virt-manager and multiple connections

[Brenton Leanhardt]

+++ Cole Robinson [22/04/09 11:12 -0400]:
>Brenton Leanhardt wrote:
>> I'm using virt-manager 0.6.0 on F10 and I came across an edge case
>> with regard to managing multiple connections.  In my case the domain
>> xml files were mounted via NFS and shared across multiple hosts.  
>> 
>> This obviously leads to guests on each machine having the same uuid.
>> I expected each of my 3 virt hosts to list all the domains and to be
>> able to select where I wanted a particular guest to be started.  What
>> I didn't expect was that once I started a guest on one domain it
>> immediately showed up as "Running" on the other two virt hosts.
>> Stopping the VM on the correct host also behaves as expected.
>> 
>> Is this a case virt-manager should handle?  I could attempt a patch if
>> given a bit of guidance.  Namely,
>> 
>> Should a vmmDomain have knowledge of which host is running on?
>> 
>> Should there be seperate instances for each host even though they have
>> the same uuid (which in this case is not really a uuid).
>> 
>> Would it be best to simply patch the UI to handle this edge case?
>> 
>
>Thanks for looking to patch this, but this should actually be fixed in
>virt-manager-0.6.1 which I plan on pushing to F10. The commits are:
>
>http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/9c4afb8ad1e6
>http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/4e7c3f99f0db
>
>The issue was that we were using only UUID as the unique identifier for
>rows in the manager window, which was switched to using connection URI +
>UUID.
>
>Thanks,
>Cole

Excellent!  I'll checkout the code and see if it works for me.

--Brenton