Thank you for your prompt reply, it was very helpful. Jorge On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 17:48, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 06:08:05PM +0100, Jorge Somavilla wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am experiencing some problems with different versions of libvirt >> (0.7.5 and 0.7.7), with a kvm (WinXP), host running Ubuntu 9.10, and i >> would like to ask you two questions: >> >> - In virsh, after running the command "shutdown domainName", what >> should be the final state of the domain, if the shutdown finishes >> correctly: "shutoff", "no-state", "inactive", or the domain shouldn't >> show in "list --all" (full clean-up)? > > There are two types of guest in libvirt > > - persistent - they have a config file stored on disk > - transient - no config file & only exist while running > > > If you run 'shutdown' on a persistent guest, the final state should > be 'shutoff'. For a transient guest, it will go away completely not > ever visible again. > > NB, 'shutdown' is merely a *request* to shutdown. There is no > guarentee that the guest OS will honour this request. If it does > not, then you will have to kill the guest forcefully (virsh destroy) > which removes the virtual power plug. > > >> - After the command "shutdown domainName", should i be able to run the >> command "start domainName", without first defining the domain? (i.e.: >> does shutdown "undefine" the domain?). > > No, shutdown is merely a request to shutdown. It won't touch the > configs on disk. You will also have to watch to see if it actually > shuts down before you can run start again. > >> In my experience 0.7.5 used to leave the shut down domains as defined, >> so i could run "start" right after. Testing in other hosts this >> doesn't work always like that, and even if the domain apparently shuts >> down correctly, the domain sometimes shows in "list --all", and >> sometimes it doesn't. With libvirt 0.7.7 the domain never shows in >> "list --all" after a successful shutdown, which makes me think it was >> a bug and it has been corrected. Am i missing anything? > > To best of my knowledge, there is no change in semantics between these > two versions. > > Daniel > -- > |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| > |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| > |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| > |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| >
