On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 08:54:27AM -0500, Rodger Haynes wrote: > I am experiencing the same problem on a new Dell Optiplex GX520. I'm new > at this as well. > > Paul O'rorke wrote: > >maybe I've missed something but if I reboot or shutdown a guest domain > >I can't start it again. xm --list doesn't show the domain. From the > >Virtual Machine Manager (FC6) if I go : File --> Restore saved > >machine (Restore a saved machine from a filesystem image) and pint to > >/vm/webserver I get a dialogue box stating: > > > > *Error restoring domain '/vm/webserver'. Is the domain already > > running?* > > > > > >Similary if I try to restore from the disk file with xm restore I get > >the following: > > > > *# xm restore /vm/webserver* > > *Error: Restore failed* > > *Usage: xm restore <CheckpointFile>* > > > > *Restore a domain from a saved state.* > > > > > >I'm guessing that the disk file is not the correct file to restore > >from - <CheckpointFile>?? but I can't find anywhere documentation > >on how to open these machines. No, the 'restore' functionality is for re-activating a suspended VM that has previously been saved out to disk with 'save'. Think of it as equivalent of 'hibernate to disk' on your laptop. If you shutdown/reboot the domain then 'restore' is not what you want instead you want 'create' which is equivalent of cold boot on a laptop. eg, 'xm create <name>'. Unfortunately once you shutdown a domain, XenD looses all knowledge of it - that's why 'xm list' didn't show it, and virt-manager can't see it. Rest assured the domain is stilon disk - the config file is kept in /etc/xen. If you use 'xm create' then it loads the config file into XenD and boots the domain. We're actively working on getting support for inactivate domains into virt-manager which will help resolve the confusion in this area. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen
