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<p style="padding: 0; margin: 0;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Craig Thompson, President<br /></span></p>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #325FBA; padding-left: 5px; margin: 0px 5px;"><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original message-----<br /><span><strong>From:</strong> Sarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com></span><br /><span><strong>Sent:</strong> Tuesday 23rd August 2016 17:14</span><br /><span><strong>To:</strong> Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS <centos-virt@centos.org></span><br /><span><strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [CentOS-virt] how to enable auto-start on newer versions of Xen ?</span><br /><br /></span>
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<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">On 08/23/2016 01:10 PM, Sarah Newman wrote:<br />> On 08/23/2016 12:59 PM, Craig Thompson wrote:<br />> <br />>> 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.<br />>><br />> <br />> We haven't had issues on xen 4.6. We don't use libvirt.<br />> <br />> Are you sure xendomains is enabled? Maybe in the past it was enabled by default but isn't now.<br />> <br />> If it is enabled, have you tried running the xendomains init script manually with bash -x to see where it's going wrong? You need to add 'set -x' to<br />> /usr/lib64/xen/bin/xendomains as well for full output.<br />> <br /><br />Sorry, I missed the CentOS 7 bit.<br /><br />Looking at https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen/blob/xen-46/SPECS/xen.spec#L613 it looks like xendomains is not enabled by default. It looks like that<br />happened in https://github.com/CentOS-virt7/xen/commit/01a31207ef50ec8c664fa0807ac85075dca3aa53. No clue as to why.<br /><br />--Sarah<br /><br />_______________________________________________<br />CentOS-virt mailing list<br />CentOS-virt@centos.org<br />https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt<br /></pre>
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