Hugh O. Brock schrieb:
Not too long ago we took a patch that allowed QEMU VMs to keep running even if libvirtd died or was restarted.
I was talking to Matt Farellee (cc'd) this afternoon about manageability, and he feels fairly strongly that this behavior should be optional -- in other words, it should be possible to guarantee that if libvirtd dies, it will take all the VMs with the "die-with-libvirtd" flag set down with it.
I'm not sure this API is portable to Xen, but it would work on any hypervisor that represents the VM as a normal process.
Does this strike anyone else as useful behavior?
Thanks, --Hugh Hello
From my point of view the kvm-processes should under no circumstance die if it is not intended that they behave so. i.e. one most shut down a VM or destroy it on purpose. A normale restart of libvirt should do nothing but restart the libvirt. Your mentiond behaviour would also make it impossible to update/upgrade libvirt without restarting all VMs. Kind regards, Gerrit Slomma