Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?

2016-08-23 Thread Craig Thompson
Thank you, Sarah.  That was the missing piece. -- Craig Thompson, President Caldwell Global Communications, Inc. -Original message- From: Sarah Newman  Sent: Tuesday 23rd August 2016 17:14 To: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?

2016-08-23 Thread Sarah Newman
On 08/23/2016 01:10 PM, Sarah Newman wrote: > On 08/23/2016 12:59 PM, Craig Thompson wrote: > >> I was thinking that in iterations past, it was possible just to run the >> hypervisor, put a symlink in /etc/xen/auto, and VMs would be auto-started >> upon reboot. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe those

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?

2016-08-23 Thread Sarah Newman
On 08/23/2016 12:59 PM, Craig Thompson wrote: > I was thinking that in iterations past, it was possible just to run the > hypervisor, put a symlink in /etc/xen/auto, and VMs would be auto-started > upon reboot. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe those older boxes had libvirt > installed on them, too.

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?

2016-08-23 Thread Craig Thompson
PJ, I didn't have virsh installed (libvirt-client).  After having installed it, it still didn't see the process: virsh autostart testvm error: failed to connect to the hypervisor error: no valid connection error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': No such file or

Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?

2016-08-16 Thread Scot P. Floess
Craig, Try this: mkdir -p /etc/libvirt/libxl/autostart cd /etc/libvirt/libxl/autostart ln -s /etc/libvirt/libxl/[name-of-vm].xml I just verified that worked for me... Here is my setup: [root@host-1 ~]# ls -latr /etc/libvirt/libxl total 24 drwx--. 6 root root 4096 Jun 26 15:31 ..

[CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?

2016-08-15 Thread Craig Thompson
Hello, In days past, all I had to do was create /etc/xen/auto and put a symlink in there to the config file for each VM I wanted to have started automatically. Since updating to 4.6, this doesn't work.  Period. I'm having a hard time finding what needs to change in order to get VMs to