[libvirt] [PATCH] spec: Don't save/restore running VMs on libvirt-client update

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Fri Nov 22 15:23:02 UTC 2013


On 11/21/2013 04:54 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/21/2013 01:15 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> Restarting an active libvirt-guests.service is the equivalent of
>> doing:
>>
>> /usr/libexec/libvirt-guests.sh stop
>> /usr/libexec/libvirt-guests.sh start
>>
>> Which in a default configuration will managedsave every running VM,
>> and then restore them. Certainly not something we should do every
>> time the libvirt-client RPM is updated.
>>
>> Just drop the try-restart attempt, I don't know what purpose it
>> serves anyways.
> 
> Probably put in as copy-and-paste from libvirtd by someone who didn't
> understand services very well at the time the script was created.  For
> libvirtd, it DOES make sense to restart (you want to be running the
> latest bits for bug fixes, and restarting libvirtd has no impact to
> running guests).
> 
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962225
>> ---
>>  libvirt.spec.in | 3 +--
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> ACK.  (and goes to crawl in a hole for not investigating this further
> back in May when I claimed it as a regression in behavior)
> 

Thanks, Pushed now

- Cole




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