On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 05:33:56PM +0800, lvroyce wrote: > Hi all, > > I came across below issue when testing: > > 1.make a volume and attach it to a domain A > 2.unplug the vg from the host in order to emulating a volume failure > 3.start domain A(failed) > > In step 3 can't start domainA . because can't find disk listed > in xml when create the Domain. > > I'm not sure if it is reasonable. In common sense, we can still > start our system even if we have a corrupt data disk .And also ,if > in data center we carelessly attatch a corrupt volumn to all the > guest, it will result in all guests fail to boot . > > I suggest to automatically detach a disk if it can't be found > and just give out a warning.Please let me know your opinion about if > it is a bug or a feature.Thanks. You are not simulating a corrupt data disk in your example, you are simulating a completely missing disk. This is simply administrative error and thus is it perfectly reasonable for the guest to not start when its disk is missing. 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