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Re: [Xen-devel] xend bug? restart = 'never'

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] xend bug? restart = 'never'
From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:45:04 +0100
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On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:41:05PM +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:53:53PM -0400, Jonathan M. McCune wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm observing a situation where domU crashes and xend continuously tries 
> > to restart it.  For example, I have to write commands like this to 
> > actually get it to stop:
> > 
> > for i in `seq 80 90`; do xm destroy $i; done
> > 
> > I've tried adding restart = "never" and restart = 'never' to the domain 
> > config file (the file that gets passed to `xm create`).  Is this a known 
> > issue?  Am I doing something wrong?
> 
> It's a bug.  Please use the new config options on_poweroff, on_reboot, and
> on_crash (documented in the example configuration files in
> tools/examples/xmexample{1,2,3}).  We are supposed to be backwards compatible
> with the old restart option, but that is clearly broken.

Also, xm shutdown --halt should override any restarting configuration, and
definitively halt the domain.

Ewan.

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