Clarify the fact that temporary HV/BE params in instance start override
and do not extend the configured parameters; and change the instance
list headers from HVM_* to * since many of the parameters apply to KVM
too. Also fix a typo in the rapi documention for '/2/nodes'.
---
doc/rapi.rst | 4 ++--
man/gnt-instance.sgml | 14 +++++++++-----
scripts/gnt-instance | 12 ++++++------
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/rapi.rst b/doc/rapi.rst
index 0fcfab2..61454d0 100644
--- a/doc/rapi.rst
+++ b/doc/rapi.rst
@@ -599,11 +599,11 @@ Example::
[
{
"id": "node1.example.com",
- "uri": "\/instances\/node1.example.com"
+ "uri": "\/nodes\/node1.example.com"
},
{
"id": "node2.example.com",
- "uri": "\/instances\/node2.example.com"
+ "uri": "\/nodes\/node2.example.com"
}
]
diff --git a/man/gnt-instance.sgml b/man/gnt-instance.sgml
index 14f6c51..81d75b2 100644
--- a/man/gnt-instance.sgml
+++ b/man/gnt-instance.sgml
@@ -1511,10 +1511,10 @@ instance5: 11225
<para>
The <option>-H</option> and <option>-B</option> options
- specify extra, temporary hypervisor and backend parameters
- that can be used to start an instance with modified
- parameters. They can be useful for quick testing without
- having to modify an instance back and forth, e.g.:
+ specify temporary hypervisor and backend parameters that can
+ be used to start an instance with modified parameters. They
+ can be useful for quick testing without having to modify an
+ instance back and forth, e.g.:
<screen>
# gnt-instance start -H root_args="single" instance1
# gnt-instance start -B memory=2048 instance2
@@ -1523,7 +1523,11 @@ instance5: 11225
<userinput>instance1</userinput> in single-user mode, and
the instance <userinput>instance2</userinput> with 2GB of
RAM (this time only, unless that is the actual instance
- memory size already).
+ memory size already). Note that the values override the
+ instance parameters (and not extend them): an instance with
+ "root_args=ro" when started with <userinput>-H
+ root_args=single</userinput> will result in "single", not
+ "ro single".
</para>
<para>
diff --git a/scripts/gnt-instance b/scripts/gnt-instance
index 711727b..ead004f 100755
--- a/scripts/gnt-instance
+++ b/scripts/gnt-instance
@@ -241,12 +241,12 @@ def ListInstances(opts, args):
"network_port": "Network_port",
"hv/kernel_path": "Kernel_path",
"hv/initrd_path": "Initrd_path",
- "hv/boot_order": "HVM_boot_order",
- "hv/acpi": "HVM_ACPI",
- "hv/pae": "HVM_PAE",
- "hv/cdrom_image_path": "HVM_CDROM_image_path",
- "hv/nic_type": "HVM_NIC_type",
- "hv/disk_type": "HVM_Disk_type",
+ "hv/boot_order": "Boot_order",
+ "hv/acpi": "ACPI",
+ "hv/pae": "PAE",
+ "hv/cdrom_image_path": "CDROM_image_path",
+ "hv/nic_type": "NIC_type",
+ "hv/disk_type": "Disk_type",
"hv/vnc_bind_address": "VNC_bind_address",
"serial_no": "SerialNo", "hypervisor": "Hypervisor",
"hvparams": "Hypervisor_parameters",
--
1.6.5.3
