Re: [Xen-devel] HVMs terminating as (null)

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2013-11-25 at 21:56 +1100, Steven Haigh wrote:
> On 25/11/13 21:50, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> > 
> > Monday, November 25, 2013, 11:36:05 AM, you wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sat, 2013-11-23 at 17:38 +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> >>> Would it be possible to leave the domainname to something else as 
> >>> "(null)" when such a state occurs,
> >>> the xendomains script f.e. seems to interpret this literally and bails 
> >>> out without shutting down
> >>> any other domains.
> > 
> >> I guess it should be a one liner, so please submit a patch. Not sure
> >> what alternative string should be used, since you would want to avoid
> >> clashing with any potential real domain's name.
> > 
> > I didn't immediately spot the place where it was set to "null".
> > Yes that's a problem, though domainnaming has more restrictions (like using 
> > "0" (or any other number that is also a domain-id) as domainname) in the 
> > "just don't do that" category.
> > 
> >> From that PoV it might be better to teach xendomains to ignore such
> >> domains.
> > 
> > From what i remember i also couldn't  use "xl destroy" on such a domain 
> > (though i probably should by using the domain number instead of the name).
> > Perhaps the toolscripts should just uses the domain-id numbers instead of 
> > names for anything except printk's and echoing to the user ?
> 
> Correct - once a domain enters the (null) state, you cannot use 'xl
> destroy' to kill the domain. As in my first post, the domain ID still
> exists, but it cannot be used. Is this a toolset bug?

No. It is not possible for the toolstack to kill a domain which is in
this state. If it were the domain would have died, but a memory
reference is keeping it alive and there is nothing the toolstack can do
about that.

Ian.


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