On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:15:48PM +0200, Daniel Berteaud wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I'm trying to auto-suspend my guests when the host shutdown using the > managedsave function introduced in libvirt 0.8.0. > > If I manually managedsave all my guest, then manually start all of the > guest with virsh start <guest>, everything works as expected, the saved > state is restored. > > But there's a problem with the autoboot option: > > - I configure a guest to automatically start on host boot (virsh > autostart guest) > > - I save this guest (virsh managedsave guest) > > - I restart libvirt to simulate a host reboot > > The guest is started normally, instead of loading the saved state (and > the saved state is still present > in /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/save/guest.save, which means next manual boot > will probably fails) > > So, it looks like there's a difference in the way libvirt starts guests > between autoboot and a manual virsh start. > > Anybody else have this issue ? > Is this a known issue ? > > I'm running libvirt 0.8.1 on a CentOS 5.5 x86_64 box > > Regards, Daniel You'll need the initscript support for the managed save feature, patches for which are on-list now waiting for ACKs. Otherwise "autostart" doesn't really know anything about your saved VMs, only the ones you've set to autostart. --Hugh > -- > Daniel Berteaud > FIREWALL-SERVICES SARL. > Société de Services en Logiciels Libres > Technopôle Montesquieu > 33650 MARTILLAC > Tel : 05 56 64 15 32 > Fax : 05 56 64 15 32 > Mail: daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web : http://www.firewall-services.com > > -- > libvir-list mailing list > libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list -- ======================================================== Hugh Brock, hbrock@xxxxxxxxxx, +1-215-564-3232 Deltacloud API + Portal http://deltacloud.org Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org ======================================================== -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list