[Users] How can I make a VM "immortal"?

René Koch (ovido) r.koch at ovido.at
Tue Sep 24 11:57:37 UTC 2013


On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 08:44 +0800, lofyer wrote:
> On 2013/9/24 6:03, Itamar Heim wrote:
> > On 09/23/2013 06:18 PM, lofyer wrote:
> >> Besides assigning a watchdog device to it, are there any other ways to
> >> make the VM autostart even if an user shutdown it manually?
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> > if a user shut down a vm from inside or via engine?
> > i suggest an external script on engine monitoring its status and 
> > starting it for such a use case
> You mean a anacrontab script?


You can for example use Nagios/Icinga with the event handler
functionality. When your vm is down, Nagios/Icinga can start it again
via an event handler script (which will use Pyhton SDK or REST-API to
start the vm).


Regards,
René


PS: Had some mail/dns issues today, so maybe some mails with suggestions
are missing on my side...


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