On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 14:57:30 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:02:28PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > When the daemon is starting it autostarts all guests marked as > > autostartable. This is not an ideal solution for autostarting if there's > > a lot of domains configured so. After autostarting all right away the > > guests start competing for disk I/O and the boot is prolonged > > unnecessarily. > > > > This patch adds a config option to disable autostarting to leave it on > > user scripts that may use mechanisms to reduce load of the host by > > limiting the number of guests started in parallel. > > I sort wonder whether it is better to expose this as a command line > argument rather than a config option. It would make life much easier > for people who want to have autostart running most of the time, but > occassionally want to start libvirtd without it. I also think command line argument is better than a config option. And if someone wants to permanently disable autostarting, we have service configuration files for this (such as /etc/sysconfig/libvirtd, /etc/conf.d/libvirtd, ...). Jirka -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list