Hi! Thank you very much for your response! It was the version... you pointed at. I was testing on my home coputer... that is on Ubuntu it has libvirt v.0.7. Fortunately our real environment (Debian) has libvirt v.0.8. Cheers, Gyula ________________________________________ Feladó: Daniel Veillard [veillard@xxxxxxxxxx] Küldve: 2010. július 8. 22:01 Címzett: Csom Gyula Másolatot kap: libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx Tárgy: Re: qemu hook is not starting On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:49:25PM +0000, Csom Gyula wrote: > Hi there! > > Since our cloud system that is currently under development, might need it, I've tested libvirt > domain hooks but unfortunately failed. I've tried the following scenario: > > 1. create the hook directory... > > # mkdir /etc/libvirt/hook > # chmod 755 /etc/libvirt/hook > > 2. ... or maybe hooks? > > # ln -s hook hooks it's hooks and make it a directory ! > 3. create the hook script > > # vi /etc/libvirt/hook/qemu > # cat /etc/libvirt/hook/qemu > > #!/bin/bash > echo "*****************************************************" >> /tmp/libvirt.log > echo "qemu-hook: $@" >> /tmp/libvirt.log > echo "*****************************************************" >> /tmp/libvirt.log > > echo "test error" >&2 > exit 1 > > # chmod 755 /etc/libvirt/hook/qemu > > 4. Then I restarted the libvirt daemon and created a domain through virsh. Unfortunately nothing > happened. That is the vm started - although according to the documentation [1] it should not have > to start: "a non-zero return value from the script will abort the domain startup operation, and if > an error string is passed on stderr by the hook script, it will be provided back to the user > at the libvirt API level". Also the messages echod by the script did not appear in the log. > > > Could you please tell what I missed? What (else) should be done in order to run hooks? Can you double check libvirt daemon output ? Also make sure your version is recent. It was added to libvirt in 0.8.0 so anything older won't have it and ignore yout scripts, Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxx | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list