[Users] Guest life-cycle

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml at conversis.de>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:57:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] Guest life-cycle
> 
> On 06/20/2012 02:45 PM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Dennis Jacobfeuerborn" <dennisml at conversis.de>
> >> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:40:29 AM
> >> Subject: [Users] Guest life-cycle
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> after being able to start my first guest I noticed two things:
> >> 1) When I started the guest with the "run once" option the console
> >> button
> >> didn't become available. Navigating to another section of the GUI
> >> and
> >> back
> >> didn't help. I was only able to make is available by closing the
> >> browser
> >> tab and then going to the admin portal again from scratch.
> > 
> > there was an issue with the spice-xpi that was fixed in F17, I'd
> > have to check to see if that made it to F16.
> > What OS are you on and what version of spice-xpi ?
> 
> The client is on F15 with spice-xpi-2.7-1. Should this affect the
> icon in
> the gui though? I thought spice would only come into play once I
> actually
> click that button and start the console.

It is an xpi issue. There's communication between the portal and the XPI regarding if a console is active. There was a bug in the older release of the XPI that meant that the status wasn't refreshed.

> 
> >>
> >> 2) When my guest froze (due to nested virtualization
> >> experimentation
> >> that
> >> apparently doesn't work yet) I had no (obvious) way to kill the
> >> vm.
> >> Hitting
> >> the stop button apparently only sends a shutdown command but I
> >> couldn't
> >> find any way to issue a destroy command.
> > 
> > Shutdown requires guest agent. If you right click on the VM you can
> > do a stop - which forces it down.
> 
> This only seems to be available as long as the VM is still running.
> Now
> that it is in an unknown state that menu option is grayed out as is
> the
> remove option. How can I clean this up?
> 
> Regards,
>   Dennis
>