Re: [Xen-devel] Should "xm restore" be able to create two domains with the same name?

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:55:22PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 18/5/07 14:49, "Petersson, Mats" <Mats.Petersson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If I do "xm save dom file", followed by "xm restore file; xm restore
> > file", I get two domains with the same name. Surely, that's not quite
> > right? [Particularly since they both will be using the same disk-image,
> > etc]. 
> 
> You shouldn't do that. ;-)
> 
> The second restore ought to fail when xend (or the hotplug scripts) realise
> that the block device is already in use.

The second restore ought to fail before it gets anywhere near hotplug
scripts. XenD should be enforcing name & UUID uniqueness when creating
guest VMs.  Even 'xm create' lets you start the same guest twice 

http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-04/msg00279.html

Dan.
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