Re: [Libvir] Next features and target for development
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:01:32PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:49:34AM -0700, Dan Smith wrote:
> RJ> Some issues around migration which are up for discussion:
>
> Something else to consider is whether or not we "undefine" hosts
> leaving one machine during a migration. Last time I checked, Xen left
> a domain in "powered-off" state on the source. It seems to make more
> sense to me for a migration to remove the shell domain from the source
> machine.
>
> What will be the expected behavior here?
That's a good question really. There's definitely an argument to be made
that the guest shoud be undefined on the source to prevent its accidental
restart.
yup, I agree
If we wanted to make undefining after migrate compulsory, then doing
it
as part of the virDomainMigrate call would make sense. If it was an optional
thing though, one could make use of a flag to virDomainMigrate, or simply
call virDomainUndefine explicitly.
I would make it the default to try to provide a default behaviour we can
garantee on most hypervisors, and possibly provide an extra flag to try
to not undefine if the user has a good reason (and it's supported by
the underlying hypervisor)
Daniel
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