Re: [Users] Auto-start vms on boot?

My use case is that I just don't want to start manually the virtual machines when the host starts and, also, if the host is shutdown it should guest-shutdown the virtual machines. Any doc on that pin option? How one is supposed to pin a virtual machine to a host?

Thank you. ----- Mensaje original ----- > De: "Itamar Heim" <iheim(a)redhat.com&gt; > Para: "Adrian Gibanel" <adrian.gibanel(a)btactic.com&gt; > CC: "users" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Enviados: Viernes, 7 de Diciembre 2012 15:49:36 > Asunto: Re: [Users] Auto-start vms on boot? > On 12/06/2012 10:34 PM, Adrian Gibanel wrote: >> It would seem that oVirt does not provide an standard way of >> forcing boot of virtual machines at boot. >> >> Pools can have pre-started vms as stated here: >> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtual... >> but pools imply state-less virtual machines and I am talking more >> about normal virtual machines. >> >> I've found this script: >> >> https://github.com/iranzo/rhevm-utils/blob/master/rhev-vm-start.py >> >> which could do to the trick if run at host boot. >> >> I've also thought (but not tried) to mark a virtual machine as >> "Highly Available" even if I have only one host (I mean, usually >> HA only makes sense when you have two hosts). >> >> Marking a VM as H.A. would do the trick? >> Any special reason why there isn't and standard way of marking >> which vms should be auto-started at boot? >> >> Just wanted to hear your thoughts before filling an RFE. >> >> >> Thank you. >> > what exactly is your use case? > the one i'm familiar with is to tie the VM life cycle to a specific > host, so a VM which is pinned to a specific host for a certain task > (say, IDS), is always starting when the host starts, and will be > automatically shutdown when host is moved to maintenance. > so only relevant for VMs which are pinned to a host. > Thanks, > Itamar