[libvirt] [PATCH] Refresh /etc/xen if inotify wasn't initialized

Daniel Veillard veillard at redhat.com
Wed Aug 5 09:48:31 UTC 2009


On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:29:02PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
> If libvirt was built against inotify, but an API user isn't using domain
> events (virsh, virt-manager), the xen xm driver doesn't poll /etc/xen
> for new config files. This means that domains created or deleted on
> other libvirt connections aren't reflected in the original connection
> (but they will show up for all newly opened connections). This causes
> newly created VMs to disappear from virt-manager < 0.8.0 once they are
> shutdown, since VMs were installed on a separate connection.
> 
> The attached patch refreshes /etc/xen in all cases, unless inotify was
> successfully initialized (user is using domain events).

  Yeah, this is a serious bug and I prefer to push the fix, even if it's
a bit large most of it is refactoring. So apply and commited,

  thanks for chasing the issue !

Daniel

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