[Fedora-xen] domU auto start order

[Dustin Henning]

	I don't know if the virt-manager created domains are affected by
this, but there is a setting in one of the xend configs that allows you to
set how long to wait before starting each domain, this would allow you to at
least have one domain close to (if not fully) loaded before the next starts.
However, I don't know if this is the reason Kanwar wants to change the boot
order anyway.  Additionally, this setting extends the Dom0 boot by the
number of domains multiplied by the length of the delay.
	Dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-xen-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Richard W.M. Jones
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 06:52
To: Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Cc: fedora-xen at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] domU auto start order

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:15:51PM -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Is it possible to auto start domU's listed in /etc/xen/auto in a
> particular order?  I imagine it is, but my reading comprehension or my
> searching skills suck, because I can't find anything about this.

Yes if you order the names of the start-up scripts alphabetically.

However note that this probably doesn't do what you think you want it
to do: There is no general way to say "don't start domain Y until
domain X is up and running", because basically there is no good
definition for "up and running".  eg. Should it mean that the kernel
is up, or it's reached the login prompt, or all services on X are
listening ...?  You can't easily test for these conditions, so just
ordering the boots only has a minimal benefit.

Rich.

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