[ovirt-users] Autostart VMS

[Adam Litke]

On 06/04/16 01:46 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>In VMware we could setup guests to autostart when the host started and
>define the order.  Is that doable in oVirt?  The only thing I've seen
>is the watchdog and tell it to reset but nothing that allows me to
>define who starts up when and if they autostart.  I assume it's there
>but I must be missing it or haven't found it in the web portal.

In oVirt guests aren't tied to a host by default (although you can set
them to run only on a specific host if you want).  The closest thing I
can think of would be the High Availability features (VM->Edit).
oVirt will try to restart highly available VMs if they go down.  You
can also set the priority for migration and restart in that pane.
Hopefully a combination of host pinning and the  high availability
settings will get you close enough to where you want to be.

Otherwise, you could always do some scripting with the ovirt REST API
using the SDK or CLI.

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Adam Litke