[Xen-bugs] [Bug 1029] New: xm list contains VM ghosts of previous reboot or shutdown

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           Summary: xm list contains VM ghosts of previous reboot or
                    shutdown
           Product: Xen
           Version: 3.0.4
          Platform: x86-64
        OS/Version: Linux-2.6
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Unspecified
        AssignedTo: xen-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: atatut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Well searching for a bug regarding "xm list" problem with version 3.0.4 doesn't
seem to exist, so I create it.

PROBLEM:

VM reboot or shutdown doesn't work; VM ghosts remain in memory. Here's the
output of the "xm list":

localhost ~ # xm list
Name                                      ID   Mem VCPUs      State   Time(s)
Domain-0                                   0   649     8     r-----  63727.5
Domain-3b56be07-c656-1c3d-5f3b-a849ffa88b1a 114   520     1     --ps--     52.2
Domain-7f28a72f-be76-9ef4-149a-cc5d0e59865f 113   520     1     --ps--     32.4
Domain-8200bf13-41c1-6acb-4969-5ec2c0dc0abc  27   520     1     --ps--     74.5
Domain-a2ae3406-f7be-a52e-1f6f-470362b77623 110   520     1     --ps--     37.8
Domain-fcbd525e-1b07-a393-8ff7-7488b6c1d16a  96   520     1     --ps--     76.5
Domain-fcbd525e-1b07-a393-8ff7-7488b6c1d16a  93   520     1     --ps--    119.6
Domain-fcbd525e-1b07-a393-8ff7-7488b6c1d16a  94   520     1     --ps--     15.7
Gentoo.2006.1_CVS4                       112   520     1     --ps--     40.2
Gentoo.2006.1_CVS4                       115   520     2     -b----  16549.7
Windows2K004                             111   520     1     -b----    179.6

WORKAROUND: Sometimes killing the VM ghosts does the trick, sometimes it just
tells me the domain already exists when I try to restart it, and the only way
is to rename my VM configuration file like the above: Gentoo.2006.1_CVS4, that
was originally Gentoo.2006.1_CVS, but when kill was not enough anymore or
simply didn't work, I had to rename the VM confile file. The only clean way is
to:

/etc/init.d/xend restart

of cours I'd better shutdown my running VM before I execute this command.

But this just "kills" the VM ghosts properly, this workaround forces me to
setup all my VM from 0% to 100% then launch them and never do a reboot of any
of the VM. This is a quite monolithic way to work with VMs.

Is there a way cron the deletion of the VM ghosts found in the xm list? And
will that do the trick?

Iâ??m no coder so donâ??t ask me to hack the xen source or something.


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