Re: [Xen-devel] xl / xend feature parity: Missing '-a' option for xl 'shutdown' to shutdown all domains

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:52:00 PM, you wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 11:43 +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>> The docs say you have to supply a domain_id as argument.
>> But if you supply a domain_name instead it works as well.

> xl(1) says "domain-id is the numeric domain id, or the domain name
> (which will be internally translated to domain id)"

>> But what if i'm stupid enough to give my domain a number as name (which 
>> seems to be allowed/possible)


>> In that case i can't shut it down by name:
>> 
>> serveerstertje:~# xl list
>> Name                                        ID   Mem VCPUs      State   
>> Time(s)
>> Domain-0                                     0  1024     6     r-----   
>> 22318.7
>> media                                       12   256     1     -b----      
>> 73.0
>> webproxy                                    14   768     5     -b----   
>> 41385.2
>> www                                         15   507     2     -b----     
>> 670.8
>> 13                                          17   256     1     -b----       
>> 3.2
>> 
>> 13                                          17   256     1     -b----       
>> 3.2
>> serveerstertje:~# xl shutdown 13
>> 13 is an invalid domain identifier (rc=-6)

> I think this is a case of Don't Do That Then. If you want a patch to the
> manpage clarifying that users should avoid purely numeric domain names
> that would be nice.

How acceptable would it be to make that explicit and enforce that policy on 
domain creation ?





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