[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#508604: Bug#508604: Another script (better)

[Guido Günther]

Hi,
thanks for your script. The current plan is to switch to the script 
shipped by upstream. Hopefully we'll ship this with the next release.

Am 05.12.2010 17:57, schrieb Покотиленко Костик:
> Hi.
>
> I'm joining this subject, because this is one of several stoppers of
> migration from xen.
>
> So, this is another init.d script to autostart libvirt domains. It also
> relays on libvirt autosave feature turned off. It's able to save running
> domains and resume them at startup. It has a feature not present in
> other scripts, it has autostart list of domain which should be started
> at boot if they have not been saved or could not be restored.
>
> There is a problem (probably a bug in libvirt in Debian Lenny) during
> boot that some domains could not be resumed at several first tries.
> Author of this script knows of this problem and there is support to
> retry of resume in the script. There were 3 retries initially, I set it
> to 10.
>
> In my case I have 3 domains of 1Gb of RAM whose are restoring Ok all the
> times, and 2 domain of 2 Gb RAM which have problems restoring. Sometime
> they restore Ok, some times they are restoring during first 10 retries,
> sometimes they are unable to restore even at 10 retries. I think this is
> somehow relate to amount of memory of domain.
>
> Also, I checked other two scripts posted here, there is still problem
> with restore, it it doesn't relates to scripts being used. I think it's
> libvirt related. I've tryed later version of libvirt/kvm from backport -
> there were no problem with resume, but there is a problem with save
> which takes forever to save domain, so I rolled back.

This last part is an issue with kvm that´s fixed in squeeze.
Cheers,
  -- Guido

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