[Users] save to restart libvirtd ?

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 07:40:41PM +0100, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
> ah, i dont have that configured anyway as I thought from the
> beginning that i'd like to keep control over when a host is being
> rebooted ...
> 
> unfortunately, the VMs are running storage domains too (NFS) so it'd
> take those down I believe ... i'll try w/o stopping vdsm first ...
> on one that hopefully doesnt run too many critical apps at the time
> ..
> 
> i'll report back how it went if anyone's interested :)

Please do - since Vdsm should've restarted itself anyway.
> 
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> On 04/17/2013 08:07 AM, Omer Frenkel wrote:
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> >    *From: *"Alex Leonhardt" <alex.tuxx at gmail.com>
> >    *To: *"Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> >    *Cc: *"oVirt Mailing List" <users at ovirt.org>
> >    *Sent: *Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:02:25 AM
> >    *Subject: *Re: [Users] save to restart libvirtd ?
> >
> >    would that stop any of the running VMs ?
> >
> >it shouldn't, but if you have ovirt engine running, make sure that
> >power management not active for this host,
> >since after timeout (usually 1 minute) when vdsm is down, the host
> >will be fenced (restarted) - then the vms will surely stop..
> >look at http://www.ovirt.org/Automatic_Fencing
> ><http://www.ovirt.org/Automatic_Fencing%20>for more info about
> >automatic fencing in engine.