On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 14:26 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > So is there any better way to block on destroy here ? In the clustering > > scenario its neccessary to 'fence' a misbehaving domain on a host before > > bringing it back online. From what you're saying it would appear to be > > neccessary to poll for completion of the destroy op before trying to > > restart the domain. > > > > The 3.0.4 API ought to have proper async/sync semantics. Polling is an > option. Ok, that's fine -- I'll poll until the domain's gone before returning; on the newer API, it won't break anything. > Keep in mind, this problem isn't limited to destroy. It's true for > reboot, shutdown, etc. There are very few ops that are actually > synchronous in Xen today. /me wants sync reboot... :) *wishes upon a star* -- Lon