On Jun 10, 2013, at 21:20 , David Jaša <dj...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > there may be more kinds of reboot in context of RHEV: "warm" reboot that > keeps qemu process intact, or "cold" that would involve qemu process > termination and start of new one - and this could be done with keeping > of current configuration, or with applying settings that "take effect > after reboot" that have changed during VM runtime; and all of these can > be "soft" - when the guest OS reboots itself and "hard" when you perform > the reboot right away. we plan to have 2 of them which seem to make most sense "warm" without applying config changes and keeping qemu process (i.e. also keeps Run Once,Stateless, pooled VM config/state) "cold" which kills qemu and is completely driven by Engine, and applies config changes and a policy option in VM properties to specify whether you should forcibly proceed with reboot/shutdown when graceful methods fail/timeout
is there anything not covered for a typical user? We intentionally don't want to provide all possible options, just those making sense. The feature is about providing a convenient shortcut. Thanks, michal > > All of these have their use cases, so it should be documented what will > you implement, and you may expect somebody asking you to implement the > rest. ;) > > David > > > Martin Betak píše v Pá 07. 06. 2013 v 12:32 -0400: >> Hi, engine-devel >> >> Customers request the ability to reboot a VM with a single click so I >> started designing the overall architecture and planing out the required >> changes to the respective components. >> You can find the wiki page for the initial draft at [1] and I would like to >> ask you for your input on my general design and potential issues that could >> arise in some corner cases. >> Please feel free to respond to this thread or add to the Issues section of >> [1]. >> >> Thanks in advance for your opinions :-) >> >> Martin >> >> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Guest_Reboot >> _______________________________________________ >> Engine-devel mailing list >> Engine-devel@ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel > > -- > > David Jaša, RHCE > > SPICE QE based in Brno > GPG Key: 22C33E24 > Fingerprint: 513A 060B D1B4 2A72 7F0D 0278 B125 CD00 22C3 3E24 > > > _______________________________________________ > Engine-devel mailing list > Engine-devel@ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel _______________________________________________ Engine-devel mailing list Engine-devel@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/engine-devel
