[libvirt] [PATCH] Implement autostart commands for xen

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:21:25PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> The attached patch implements the domain autostart commands for
> xen. The xen sexpr (since at least 3.0.4 = 1.5 years) has a 
> on_xend_start field which can be used to autostart a domain.
> 
> A couple things:
> 
> 1) This works on a running guest, but will only show the
>    sexpr changes after the guest is restarted. Just curious
>    if there is any better way to do this?

That's just the way XenD works - nothing we can do about this AFAICT

> 2) This isn't implemented for the xm config file driver. I
>    figured this is fine since this is inherently dependent
>    on inactive domain management.

This would need a completely separate approach - symlinking the
config files from /etc/xen into /etc/xen/auto

Dan.
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