[Users] Auto-start vms on boot?

[Itamar Heim]

On 12/07/2012 06:23 PM, Adrian Gibanel wrote:
> 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?

just to be clear, we still don't have the behavior i described. I just 
stated the only use case i'm familiar for a similar requirement.
(pinning a VM to host is done via the edit vm dialog).

question on your use case - how would the engine know if the admin just 
shutdown a VM manually from a VM which should be auto started (should we 
add such a checkbox).
in the use case i described, we would be adding a 'start/stop VM with 
host' for a VM pinned to a host.

>
> Thank you.
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
>
>> De: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
>> Para: "Adrian Gibanel" <adrian.gibanel at btactic.com>
>> CC: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
>> 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_Virtualization/3.1/html/Administration_Guide/Prestarting_Virtual_Machines_in_a_Pool.html
>>> 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
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