I could be wrong, but I thought as recently as 4.3 that Reset VM essentially stopped and then re-started the VM with the same root disk.
It seemed to differ from Reboot VM only in the sense that the VM was never technically stopped (the OS inside the VM was just rebooted). On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Mike Tutkowski < mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > I'm using XenServer 6.1 hosts (two of them) in this case. > > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Mike Tutkowski < > mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> wrote: > >> Yeah, stopping and restarting works fine...as does, I believe, rebooting >> the VM. >> >> Right below Reboot VM, there is a Reset VM option. >> >> If that means "re-install," then we probably should clean up the old root >> disk. >> >> >> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < >> alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: >> >>> don¹t see ³Reset Vm² option in UI; do you mean ³Reboot instance²? I¹ve >>> just tried that, as well as calling stop/startVM from the UI. The Vm >>> boots >>> up with its original disk. >>> >>> I¹m having Xen/Nfs, not sure it matters >>> >>> -Alena. >>> >>> On 3/19/14, 2:19 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >I didn't look into what the GUI calls, but I invoked the Reset VM option >>> >in >>> >the GUI. >>> > >>> >Thanks >>> > >>> > >>> >On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Alena Prokharchyk < >>> >alena.prokharc...@citrix.com> wrote: >>> > >>> >> Mike, just to confirm - did you call >>> >> stopVirtualMachine/startVirtualMachine apis? >>> >> >>> >> -alena. >>> >> >>> >> On 3/19/14, 1:55 PM, "Mike Tutkowski" <mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com> >>> >> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> >Hi, >>> >> > >>> >> >I noticed today while running through some test cases for 4.4 that >>> >> >resetting a VM does not work as expected. >>> >> > >>> >> >Instead of the typical stop and re-start behavior where the VM is >>> >>booted >>> >> >back up using the same root disk, the VM gets a new root disk when it >>> >>is >>> >> >booted back up. >>> >> > >>> >> >Can anyone confirm this finding for me with his or her setup? >>> >> > >>> >> >Thanks! >>> >> > >>> >> >-- >>> >> >*Mike Tutkowski* >>> >> >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >>> >> >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >>> >> >o: 303.746.7302 >>> >> >Advancing the way the world uses the >>> >> >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >>> >> >*(tm)* >>> >> >>> >> >>> > >>> > >>> >-- >>> >*Mike Tutkowski* >>> >*Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >>> >e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >>> >o: 303.746.7302 >>> >Advancing the way the world uses the >>> >cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >>> >*(tm)* >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Mike Tutkowski* >> *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* >> e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com >> o: 303.746.7302 >> Advancing the way the world uses the >> cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> >> *(tm)* >> > > > > -- > *Mike Tutkowski* > *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* > e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com > o: 303.746.7302 > Advancing the way the world uses the > cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> > *(tm)* > -- *Mike Tutkowski* *Senior CloudStack Developer, SolidFire Inc.* e: mike.tutkow...@solidfire.com o: 303.746.7302 Advancing the way the world uses the cloud<http://solidfire.com/solution/overview/?video=play> *(tm)*
