[virt-tools-list] question about clustering

[Kenneth Armstrong]

Ok, so rebooting from within the guest OS itself might not be bad,
since the PID remains the same?  So RHCS is basically checking for the
PID on a vm's instance then?

-Kenny

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Josip Deanovic
<djosip+news at linuxpages.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 2011-02-20, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:37:47AM +0100, Josip Deanovic wrote:
>> > On Thursday 2011-02-17, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
>> > > Ok, that's a bigger question than I thought.  We have quite a few
>> > > Windows servers that will be vm's, and well, Windows tends to get
>> > > restarted a lot for updates, etc.  This is something we'll have to
>> > > test once we get the deployment going.
>> >
>> > In case you reboot OS inside the vm, qemu will restart almost instantly
>> > thus in most cases nothing bad will come from it. However, it is
>> > possible to get rgmanager check your virtual machine in the momemnt
>> > it's still down.
>>
>> Isn't in fact the qemu process the same across the reboot
>> in this case?
>
> Yes it is, I forgot that. Sorry.
>
> In case it's powered off and on from virsh/virt-manager then it will aquire
> new PID.
>
> --
> Josip Deanovic
>
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