[Users] Guest life-cycle

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml at conversis.de>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM
> Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
> 
> Hi,
> after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things:
> 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console
> button
> didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI and
> back
> didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the
> browser
> tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.

there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd have to check to see if that made it to F16.
What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?

> 
> 2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization experimentation
> that
> apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the vm.
> Hitting
> the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I
> couldn't
> find any way to issue a destroy command.

Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can do a stop - which forces it down.

> After killing the qemu process on the host manually the guest in the
> portal
> gui apparently went into an unknown "?" state which isn't surprising
> but
> now there seems to be no way to get rid of the vm.
> 
> What is proper way to get rid of such a misbehaving guest?
> 
> Regards,
>   Dennis
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