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Re: [Xen-devel] EL6 initscript feedback.



On 05/21/2013 06:00 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:02:35PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Gordan Bobic wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2013 21:30:27 +1000, Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 05/21/2013 09:20 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Steven Haigh wrote:
Hi all,

I'm throwing in my initscript here that I've been pushing to autostart
xen
domains on system boot.

There are at least one issue right now that I'm not 100% sure how to
handle -
and that is domains created by libvirt. These continue to show in an
xm/xl
list output even when they are not paused / running / blocked - causing
my
initscript to think they are still running.

The ways I can think of detecting this are *very* hacky and I wouldn't
feel
comfortable to including them in widely used packages.

I'm wondering if people have some spare time that they review the logic
in
this initscript and provide feedback / suggestions / fixes /
improvements that
I can roll into the scripts to enhance them for all.

Is it actually a good idea to mix and match different toolstacks on the
same host? If somebody intends to use libvirt, surely she would want to
use it for everything?

This is the interesting question... which probably leads into a more
important question... What is the best practices for config management
and defining configuration for DomU's?

While I recommend that people use a plain text config file in
/etc/xen (although really the files can be just about anywhere) and
then links to various auto-start DomU's in /etc/xen/auto as a general
rule.

Am I correct in thinking that libvirt only keeps details of domains
in the xenstore? Is this recommended? Although more a libvirt question
- can libvirt be configured to use config files in /etc/xen or
similar?

I think this is largely distribution dependant. In the case of EL/Fedora,
libvirt seems to be the distro's intended way of managing VMs, at least for
their primary supported virtualization method (KVM).

In the interest of clarity and maintainability I have seen the light
and converted my VMs to simple text files in /etc/xen/ (there seems to be
no documentation on how to edit most of the settings in xenstore). Some
consensus on the best way would be good, though.

I think that using simple text files in /etc/xen for VM configs is
clearly the right way to go from the Xen POV.


Earlier libvirt versions, such as the default version in rhel5/centos5,
creates /etc/xen/<vm> text files upon VM creation. Later libvirt versions 
changed the model
to use xend managed domains with libvirt xml configs.

I wonder if that behaviour could be changed with some config option.. would be 
nice.

Also to convert from libvirt xml to xen text files you can use this:

virsh dumpxml vm_name > /tmp/a
virsh domxml-to-native xen-xm /tmp/a > /etc/xen/vm_name

Works for me on centos6 Xen (libvirt 0.10.2).

EL6 seems to keep the VM configs in xenstore, not in xml files.

Gordan


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