Hi List, As per the subject, I have a desire to start a lot of VMs after a maintenance shutdown of our infrastructure and I would like to either evenly spread the load among the hosts or to restart the VMs on the host they were on before shutdown. Getting the list using ovirt-shell and transforming that to a 'action vm ABC start' is no problem but I can't find if its possible to specify the host to run the VM on. Is this possible using ovirt-shell and can someone point me to some docs? (Have read (all) the rhevm docs but either overlooked or its not there) Regards, Joop _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Joop wrote: > > Hi List, > > As per the subject, I have a desire to start a lot of VMs after a > maintenance shutdown of our infrastructure and I would like to either evenly > spread the load among the hosts or to restart the VMs on the host they were > on before shutdown. > Getting the list using ovirt-shell and transforming that to a 'action vm > ABC start' is no problem but I can't find if its possible to specify the > host to run the VM on. > Is this possible using ovirt-shell and can someone point me to some docs? > (Have read (all) the rhevm docs but either overlooked or its not there) > Answering my own question: The help describes something about parent identifiers and references the examples below but there is no example of how to use parent identifiers. Extrapolating from disks belonging to a vm a reasoned that vms belong to a host so did 'list hosts' and copied the id. It says 'An object identifier is an option of the form '--<type>id <id>' but it looks this is confusing, atleast to me. This is what worked: action vm VM_NAME start --type ID_OF_HOST The help has 2x id which confuses me. Joop _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users