Hello folks, here's a second try at this wrt to Eric's comments. BOOT_TIMEOUT changed to START_DELAY, updated wording in the conf file to better reflect what this does and added a flag to skip sleeping for the first ever started guest. --- tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh | 7 +++++++ tools/libvirt-guests.sysconf | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh b/tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh index f247e5e..30f957a 100644 --- a/tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh +++ b/tools/libvirt-guests.init.sh @@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ URIS=default ON_BOOT=start ON_SHUTDOWN=suspend SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT=0 +START_DELAY=0 test -f "$sysconfdir"/sysconfig/libvirt-guests && . "$sysconfdir"/sysconfig/libvirt-guests @@ -141,6 +142,7 @@ start() { return 0 fi + isfirst=true while read uri list; do configured=false set -f @@ -165,6 +167,11 @@ start() { if "$guest_running"; then gettext "already active"; echo else + if "$isfirst"; then + isfirst=false + else + sleep $START_DELAY + fi retval run_virsh "$uri" start "$name" >/dev/null && \ gettext "done"; echo fi diff --git a/tools/libvirt-guests.sysconf b/tools/libvirt-guests.sysconf index cd58728..37b258e 100644 --- a/tools/libvirt-guests.sysconf +++ b/tools/libvirt-guests.sysconf @@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ # libvirtd #ON_BOOT=start +# number of seconds to wait between each guest start +#START_DELAY=0 + # action taken on host shutdown # - suspend all running guests are suspended using virsh managedsave # - shutdown all running guests are asked to shutdown. Please be careful with