Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 08:06 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Ian Campbell wrote:
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:55 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
The original report was that 'Reset' does not work from GUI, like virt-manager or virsh. I think the expected outcome is like pushing the reset button on a physical board. Xen doesnt do it that way, no idea about others.
Sounds like you want libxl_domain_reboot then, perhaps with a fallback on ERROR_NOPARAVIRT for an HVM guest to sending a trigger.
Hrm, I don't think that's right . It should be a hard reset
http://libvirt.org/html/libvirt-libvirt.html#virDomainReset
destroy/start seems the correct way to implement this.
Yes, given that requirement it is. Sorry for the noise.
Would some sort of hard reset API be useful in libxl?
Sure. I think having an API that emulates a power reset button would be a nice addition to libxl's domain operations. The destroy/start approach incurs a small bit of overhead, which would be avoided with such an API. Clients (perhaps incorrectly) implementing their own notion of reset would also be avoided. In the absence of libxl_domain_reset(), do folks think the destroy/start approach is acceptable? As Olaf mentioned, it allows "Force Reset" to work via virt-manager. Regards, Jim