Kimchi can manage guests not created by Kimchi. If a user creates a non-persistent domain and uses the Power Off option, it will destroy the user's domain. In order to warn users with non-persistent guests on Power Off, this patch adds a 'persistent' field (like the one for networks and storage pools) to a vm's JSON representation. Signed-off-by: Christy Perez <christy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- docs/API.md | 2 ++ src/kimchi/model/vms.py | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/API.md b/docs/API.md index d75c55f..ebb6e61 100644 --- a/docs/API.md +++ b/docs/API.md @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ the following general conventions: * **POST**: Create a new Virtual Machine * name *(optional)*: The name of the VM. Used to identify the VM in this API. If omitted, a name will be chosen based on the template used. + * persistent: If 'true', vm will persist after a Power Off or host reboot. + All virtual machines created by Kimchi are persistent. * template: The URI of a Template to use when building the VM * storagepool *(optional)*: Assign a specific Storage Pool to the new VM * graphics *(optional)*: Specify the graphics paramenter for this vm diff --git a/src/kimchi/model/vms.py b/src/kimchi/model/vms.py index 476e4ac..5721b48 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/model/vms.py +++ b/src/kimchi/model/vms.py @@ -471,7 +471,8 @@ def lookup(self, name): 'ticket': self._get_ticket(dom), 'users': users, 'groups': groups, - 'access': 'full' + 'access': 'full', + 'persistent': True if dom.isPersistent() else False } def _vm_get_disk_paths(self, dom): -- 1.9.3