On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:50:58AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 07:33:30AM +0200, Marek Lukács wrote: > >Hi, > > > >It will be nice feature to have configuration option > >ALWAYS_START="$uri:$name $uri:name ..." in libvirt-guests > >configuration file. > > > >If ON_BOOT is "start" and if ALWAYS_START is not empty, it iterates > >over the ALWAYS_START and starts guests with same conditions (delays > >etc.) before it starts guests from LISTFILE. > > > > To be honest, I don't think that's _exactly_ what you want _just_ from > libvirt itself; let me explain. > > >Benefits: > >- guests are started with delays > > Delays that are done due to the guests are not something we should > handle. Guests and mainly the applications inside them should handle > this gracefully. Just delaying the starts is still error-prone. > > >- guests are started after host failure > > That's what libvirt-guests does already. And if you want some domains > to be started on every start, there's the 'autostart' parameter for > domains. Indeed, and I have a generall desire for libvirt-guests to go away entirely and have all its functionality just built into libvirtd. So I don't think taking functionality that already exist in libvirtd and adding it to libvirt-guest is the right direction for us to take. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list