On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 7:16 PM Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:
>

> Granted, I suspect SOME of the reasons I have this script might be
> implemented in 4.4 (e.g. auto-start of VMs).  However, my understanding of
> the auto-start feature is that it's really an auto-restart -- it will
> restart a VM that was running if the datacenter crashes, but if I shut it
> down manually and then "reboot" the cluster, those VMs wont come back
> automatically.  As I am on a single-host system, I need it to start from a
> clean shutdown and bring up all the VMs in addition to dealing with
> power-outage reboots.
>
> I work from the "if it aint broke, don't fix it" camp.  So I think I'm
> going to stick with 4.3 until I can't anymore.

Why not open RFE to add the feature you need?

You can use the python SDK to do anything supported by oVirt API.
Did you look here?
https://github.com/oVirt/ovirt-engine-sdk/tree/master/sdk/examples

> I am happy to share my startup script if someone else wants to port it to
> work with 4.4.  :-)
>
> -derek
>