Re: [libvirt] [libvirt-guests] New feature ALWAYS_START

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 07:33:30AM +0200, Marek Lukács wrote: To be honest, I don't think that's _exactly_ what you want _just_ from libvirt itself; let me explain. Delays that are done due to the guests are not something we should handle. Guests and mainly the applications inside them should handle this gracefully. Just delaying the starts is still error-prone. That's what libvirt-guests does already. And if you want some domains to be started on every start, there's the 'autostart' parameter for domains. Again, same as the first point. This should be handled gracefully in the application itself or at least worked around in the guest (not starting DB-related app before DB is accessible). Anyway, if you *really* want this, then the easiest thing to do is creating a service that starts before libvirt-guests, but after libvirt, which is just something similar to "local", so it just runs a script that does: for i in domain_one some_other_domain database_dom do virsh start "$i" sleep 60 # or you can try connecting to make sure it started done or something similar. However, you might still propose a simple patch for the feature you described.