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

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 07:33:30AM +0200, Marek Lukács wrote: >Hi, > >It will be nice feature to have configuration option >ALWAYS_START="$uri:$name $uri:name ..." in libvirt-guests >configuration file. > >If ON_BOOT is "start" and if ALWAYS_START is not empty, it iterates >over the ALWAYS_START and starts guests with same conditions (delays >etc.) before it starts guests from LISTFILE. > To be honest, I don't think that's _exactly_ what you want _just_ from libvirt itself; let me explain. >Benefits: >- guests are started with delays 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. >- guests are started after host failure 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.