On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 04:30:47PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 09:10 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: > > Ian Campbell wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > > Sure. I think having an API that emulates a power reset button would be > > a nice addition to libxl's domain operations. The destroy/start > > approach incurs a small bit of overhead, which would be avoided with > > such an API. Clients (perhaps incorrectly) implementing their own > > notion of reset would also be avoided. > > I think this ought to become pretty easy once Wei's patches to record > the guest cfg in libxl are completed. Wei -- what do you think? > I don't think this "reset" API will need to record any state, i.e. this feature looks unrelated to my work. What do I miss? Wei. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list