[Users] Pools and pre-started VM in 3.2

Michal Skrivanek michal.skrivanek at redhat.com
Thu Feb 28 03:13:21 EST 2013


On Feb 27, 2013, at 23:56 , Jiri Belka <jbelka at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:10:00 +0100
> Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> f18 node + f18 engine, both in 3.2 final.
>> If I create a pool, the "prestarted VM" field is grayed out.
>> See:
>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BwoPbcrMv8mvN3d2a0drb0szYk0/edit?usp=sharing
>> 
>> After creation of this 5-VM pool,  I can go and edit it and set 2 in
>> prestarted field, and after several seconds 2 VM are correctly started
>> by engine.
>> 
>> Do I have to configure any engine parameter to be able to set
>> prestarted VM at pool creation? Or is this the expected behavior to
>> set only on edit?
> 
> Works as design, when creating a pool you still do not know/have
> all VMs, so you cannot guarantee they would be prestarted.
> 
> So when the pool is really created, then you edit and defined number
> of prestarted VMs.
> 
> Am I right?
yes
that's why we've added that help tooltip….but it's still a bit cumbersome…but IIRC solving this was a bit complicated because of failure handling

Thanks,
michal
> jbelka
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