[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#452721: xen-utils-common: "xendomains" does not restore domains in same order as it would start them

[Andy Smith]

Package: xen-utils-common
Version: 3.0.3-0-2
Severity: wishlist

The "xendomains" init script will start domains according to the order
of config files found in /etc/xen/auto/*.  I use this so that, in the
event of a hard reboot, the more important domains will start first.

Some of these contain essential services like DNS resolvers, slapd and
so on, and since starting xen domains happens in series and can be quite
time consuming, it is rather useful to have the around first before
everything else starts up.

Unfortunately though it seems that when restoring domains from a save
file in /var/lib/xen/save/* the ordering is alphabetical.

It would be great if restoring from savefile could be ordered in the
same way as starting from cold.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-xen-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xen-utils-common depends on:
ii  lsb-base                   3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  udev                       0.105-4       /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

xen-utils-common recommends no packages.

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