[virt-tools-list] question about clustering

[Kenneth Armstrong]

Ok, that's a bigger question than I thought.  We have quite a few
Windows servers that will be vm's, and well, Windows tends to get
restarted a lot for updates, etc.  This is something we'll have to
test once we get the deployment going.

One final question for this thread:

Will virt-manager eventually become a cluster aware application?  If
not, will there be an option in virt-manager in the future to not
autostart vm's after they have been created, so as not to confuse the
cluster suite?

Thanks again.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:33:41AM -0500, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
>> Ok, thanks Daniel, that makes FAR better sense.
>>
>> Now for a stupid question:  Since the cluster suite has to manage the
>> vm's (as far as starting, stopping, migrating), if I were to log into
>> a vm, then shut it off, will the cluster suite know that it was an
>> intended shutdown or will I have to always power off my vm's through
>> clusvcadm?
>
> I'm not actually sure, but I have a feeling that it would probably
> think the VM failed & try to perform failover / HA restart. So it
> is probably safest to use clusvcadm to start/stop VMs.
>
> In theory it is possible for clustersuite to listen for various
> libvirt events & detect crash vs normal shutdown, but I don't
> think it does that.
>
>
> Daniel
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