[libvirt] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: support domainReset

[Ian Campbell]

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 08:06 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:55 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >   
> >> The original report was that 'Reset' does not work from GUI, like
> >> virt-manager or virsh. I think the expected outcome is like pushing the
> >> reset button on a physical board. Xen doesnt do it that way, no idea
> >> about others.
> >>     
> >
> > Sounds like you want libxl_domain_reboot then, perhaps with a fallback
> > on ERROR_NOPARAVIRT for an HVM guest to sending a trigger.
> >   
> 
> Hrm, I don't think that's right .  It should be a hard reset
> 
> http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainReset
> 
> destroy/start seems the correct way to implement this.

Yes, given that requirement it is. Sorry for the noise.

Would some sort of hard reset API be useful in libxl?

Ian.