On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:35:40AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 11/10/2010 10:01 AM, Hermann Himmelbauer wrote:
>Hi,
>I manage my KVM machines via libvirt and wonder if there are any init.d
>scripts for automatically starting up and shutting down virtual machines
>during boot/shutdown of the host?
>
>Writing this for myself seems to be not that simple, as when shutting down,
>the system has somehow to wait until all machines are halted (not responding
>guests have to be destroyed etc.), and I don't really know how to accomplish
>this.
>
>My host system is Debian Lenny, is there anything available?
>Perhaps libvirt offers something I'm unaware of?
>
I think it does. Copying the libvirt mailing list.
There's a script
/usr/share/doc/libvirt-bin/examples/libvirt-suspendonreboot
in Debian but I think Laurent is currently working on switching this to
the upstream libvirt-guest script which will then be installed by
default.
Cheers,
-- Guido