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Re: [Xen-users] config.sxp pain - auto start?

I just found that if you look at the sxp file, specifically;

on_xend_start ignore
on_xend_stop ignore

change ignore to start and stop accordingly.

I found some tidits on converting the simpler domU config to the newer SXP style... I think.

May be I am reading this wrong but my Running Xen book states on page 183, paragraph 1, that most users will not need this type of functionality.

What are your thoughts?

- Brian

On Oct 8, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:


On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all,

In the older format using Xen 3.0.3 (domains created via xm), I simply created a sym link from /etc/xen/domU config file to /etc/xen/auto.

I am now using virt-install (Xen 3.4.1) which creates the domU config in /var/lib/xend/domains/UUID_#_of_domU/config.sxp.

So I sym link this to a file in /etc/xen/auto/hostname_of_domU and noticed that no auto starting of the domU happens.

I've looked in both my Xen books and only find that /etc/xen/auto is the place to auto start domUs.

Any ideas on how to auto start gracefully while not writing a script in /etc/rc3.d every time a new domU comes on line?

And why are xm create and virt-install so diff in how they approach domU configs?  This is confusing.

- Brian


I just updated to 3.4.1 and autostart stopped working. I copied the xen domU file into /etc/xen/auto and it started working again. Xendomains kept complaining that my domU file was not valid. Start there.

Grant McWilliams
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