[libvirt] Startup/Shutdown scripts for KVM Machines in Debian (libvirt)

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:35:40AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 10:01 AM, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I manage my KVM machines via libvirt and wonder if there are any init.d
> >scripts for automatically starting up and shutting down virtual machines
> >during boot/shutdown of the host?
> >
> >Writing this for myself seems to be not that simple, as when shutting down,
> >the system has somehow to wait until all machines are halted (not responding
> >guests have to be destroyed etc.), and I don't really know how to accomplish
> >this.
> >
> >My host system is Debian Lenny, is there anything available?
> >Perhaps libvirt offers something I'm unaware of?
> >
> 
> I think it does.  Copying the libvirt mailing list.
There's a script

/usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/examples/libvirt-suspendonreboot 

in Debian but I think Laurent is currently working on switching this to
the upstream libvirt-guest script which will then be installed by
default.
Cheers,
 -- Guido