On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:00:50AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: > Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I found that support for setting autostart parameters for xend managed > > guests has been added to libvirt > > (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2008-May/msg00060.html) > > > > So I tried that but failed with virsh's autostart command (and also > > virt-manager) like this: > > > > virsh # autostart saruman > > libvir: Xen Daemon error : POST operation failed: (xend.err "Error > > creating domain: VM name 'saruman' already exists as domain 32") > > libvir: Xen Daemon error : failed Xen syscall Failed to redefine sexpr > > 6508560 > > error: Failed to mark domain saruman as autostarted > > > > > > So yes, the domain is indeed running but I understood it should be > > changeable during a domain's lifetime. > > > > Any ideas? > > That is a libvirt CVS snapshot from yesterday and a Xen 3.1 installation. > > > > Thanks, > > Wolfgang > > Hmm, I thought redefining the sexpr in place was an a-okay thing to do, > and this worked on my f8 machine. I'll look into this. Yes it is an OK thing todo. It is explicitly supported as it is *required* in order todo installations - we boot the guest with the install config, and defnie the guest with its persistent config. What exact version of Xen is being used here ? It looks like it has overzealous duplicate checking Dan. -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, Boston -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list