RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Prevent xend from starting duplicate dom

To:	"Dan Smith" <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:	RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Prevent xend from starting duplicate domains
From:	"Ian Pratt" <m+Ian.Pratt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:	Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:04:37 +0100
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 > The attached patch puts a simple check in domain_create() 
> which prevents starting a domain if there is already one of 
> the same name in the domain list.
> 
> This fixes the problem of getting the following error message 
> from xm while creating a domain soon after destroying one 
> with the same name:
> 
>   xen.xend.XendProtocol.XendError: (3, 'No such process')
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Smith <danms@xxxxxxxxxx>

When doing an 'xm destroy' on a domain I wander if xend should rename it
to zombie-<name>?  That way, even if something has gone wrong and we're
left with a shell domain we'll still be able to restart one with the
same name. (obviously we should only do the rename once)

Ian

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