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

[Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:37 -0700, Brian Krusic 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've read through this thread. Is there a consensus here? When I first
started on xen it used the files in /etc/xen/vm for configs, and to
autostart on boot you would put a softlink under /etc/xen/auto.


Should I be doing this a different way?

Thanks,
James
ps- sorry this got so long....

You know I could be wrong on this but I think the config.sxp way has to do with 
libvirt. Virt-install and virsh manage libvirt domains I believe. The first thing I do 
to a Xen Dom0 is shutdown libvirtd or delete the bridge that it creates so I can manage

everything I do myself. This also means I create /etc/xen/config files from template.

Grant 
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