[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#680528: xen-utils-common: Please disable xendomains auto-start

[Mike McClurg]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 23:43 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Indeed, that seems ok to me. The only thing we needed was to not do
>> anything with xm/xl if xapi is selected, and this does the job.
>
> Thanks.
>>
>> Now, one thing I'm not sure, is how XAPI should be recovering from
>> an unexpected reboot (which is why I'm CC-ing Mike and Jon). I haven't
>> seen any mechanism so that VMs managed by XCP are started/stopped
>> at [re]boot time. Do you have any idea how that works?
>
> AFAIK scripts/init.d-xapi-domains in the xapi codebase does this using
> whichever helper it calls.
>
> Ian.

Yep, that's the one. We should have installed this with xcp-xapi.

We'll need to patch that script to not call xapi-autostart-vms (which
is being depricated upstream), and also make sure that we're touching
a lock file in the appropriate /var/ directory.

Mike