I have a xen system with four guest OS's, (see list below). When I reboot the host, other guests autostart normally, but mail2 does not. I have found no explanation for this. The host and all guests are CentOS 5.5. [root at farm1 xen]# ls -l /etc/xen/auto total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 11 2009 dawit -> ../dawit lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 5 21:10 mail2 -> ../mail2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 26 2009 mail3 -> ../mail3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Oct 29 2009 ns2 -> ../ns2 Here is my config for the problem guest: cat /etc /xen/mail2 name = "mail2" uuid = "68e33ec6-ef36-9eac-27d7-65a709684551" maxmem = 500 memory = 500 vcpus = 1 bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub" # kernel = "/var/lib/xen/boot_kernel.5g5MLq" # ramdisk = "/var/lib/xen/boot_ramdisk.1pSOoP" # extra = "ro root=LABEL=/ console=xvc0" on_poweroff = "destroy" on_reboot = "restart" on_crash = "restart" disk = [ "tap:aio:/vm/mail2.img,xvda,w" ] vif = [ "mac=00:16:36:24:67:3c,bridge=xenbr0,script=vif-bridge" ] - Jussi -- Jussi Hirvi * Green Spot Topeliuksenkatu 15 C * 00250 Helsinki * Finland Tel. +358 9 493 981 * Mobile +358 40 771 2098 (only sms) jussi.hirvi at greenspot.fi * http://www.greenspot.fi