Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Add ability to disable autostarting of guests on daemon start

On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 04:02:28PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > When the daemon is starting it autostarts all guests marked as > autostartable. This is not an ideal solution for autostarting if there's > a lot of domains configured so. After autostarting all right away the > guests start competing for disk I/O and the boot is prolonged > unnecessarily. > > This patch adds a config option to disable autostarting to leave it on > user scripts that may use mechanisms to reduce load of the host by > limiting the number of guests started in parallel. I sort wonder whether it is better to expose this as a command line argument rather than a config option. It would make life much easier for people who want to have autostart running most of the time, but occassionally want to start libvirtd without it.