[Libvir] Xen reboot does not work with Sys::Virt perl binding

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 02:40:10PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +0200, Keck, Christian (ext) wrote:
> > Hello guys!
> >  
> > I am using the perl bindings (Sys::Virt) to manage my virtual xen hosts.
> > Because it directly maps the C api, I thought it's a good idea to ask
> > you instead of the author of this module.
> >  
> > Xen version is 3.0 with libvirt 0.1.9 on a red hat box.
> >  
> > while calling the reboot method i get following error:
> > libvirt error code: 0, message: Unknown problem
> > 
> > In this case the virtual system does not reboot. 
> > But with shutdown method, which throw the same error, the system shuts
> > down correctly.
> >  
> > Here is my code:
> > my $vmm = Sys::Virt->new();
> > 
> > my $dom = eval { $vmm->get_domain_by_name( $p->{ name } ) };
> > 
> > $dom->reboot(&Sys::Virt::Domain::REBOOT_RESTART);
> >  
> > Is this a known issue? Thank you for your help.
> 
> I've not come across it before, but I'll investigate to try and figure
> out what's wrong.

I've found a bug in checking return values for the reboot & shutdown
commands - they checked for NULL, instead of -1. I'll fix this in the 
next release.

Regards,
Dan.
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