[libvirt] autostarting xend domains

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:20:44PM +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 
> I just found the following patch which is applied to Xen 3.1 on openSUSE 
> which sounds like the culprit.
> If you can confirm that I'm happy to report a bug over at openSUSE.

Yes, this changeset was utterly bogus.

> # HG changeset patch
> # User kfraser at localhost.localdomain
> # Date 1180086787 -3600
> # Node ID a717cb2fac908ba82619ba52e34a2cc77942df4f
> # Parent  9073caff4b63490bc63bbe2b0b48fd06cc47d6c6
> xend: Fix checkname so that it detects duplicate domains.
> Signed-off-by: Mats Petersson <mats.petersson at amd.com>


We reverted it upstream and the two they actually want are


changeset:   15451:a86cf1d18625
user:        Keir Fraser <keir at xensource.com>
date:        Tue Oct 02 10:04:06 2007 +0100
files:       tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py
description:
xend: Fix name/uuid uniqueness checks.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
xen-unstable changeset:   15998:a345f989722649ba01701babf60e49517e910102
xen-unstable date:        Tue Oct 02 10:01:10 2007 +0100


changeset:   15450:d92bb1cd352c
user:        Keir Fraser <keir at xensource.com>
date:        Tue Oct 02 10:03:28 2007 +0100
files:       tools/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py
description:
xend: Fix name uniqueness check (revert xen-unstable 15168:a717cb2fac90).

Changeset 15168:a717cb2fac90 altered check_name() in XendDomainInfo so
that it compares domain IDs instead of UUIDs. This breaks a number of
things

 - You can no longer use 'xm new' to define a persistent config file
   for
   a running guest. This breaks the key OS provisioning scenario where
   you boot a kenrel+initrd for the installer, and at the same time
   define a permanent config with pygrub.

 - It lets you define multiple inactive guests with different UUIDs,
   but
   the same name because all inactive guests have a domid of None. So
   you can now end up with multiple guests with same name, which is
   contrary to the goal implied by the patch which was name
   uniqueness.

It is unclear from the original commit logs just what scenario it was
trying to protect against, but the original checking of uniqueness
based on UUID was correct & is what was used in previous releases
XenD.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
xen-unstable changeset:   15973:8817a53c030f9c2c5f39fafad72aa9502342e7b3
xen-unstable date:        Thu Sep 27 18:08:11 2007 +0100



Dan
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