Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Fix race in starting transient VMs

On 10/31/2013 12:41 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > > When starting a transient VM the first thing done is to check > for duplicates. The check looks if there are any running VMs > with the matching name/uuid. It explicitly allows there to > be inactive VMs, so that a persistent VM can be temporarily > booted with a different config. > > > The fix is to only allow an existing inactive VM if it is > marked as persistent. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > src/conf/domain_conf.c | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) ACK. What a nasty bug to track down.