On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:42:52PM -0700, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 05/13/2012 10:16 AM, bob wrote: > > > > from what i get it is a problem with libvirt, using a bridge that is > > going through a bond....on the same machine. > > It must be rather detailed to fix and only a few people seem to use that > > route. (like you and me) > > > > I've been running 14 CentOS5 VMs with bridged over active-backup bonded > interfaces (actually, over three sets of bonded interfaces) on a single > Ubuntu 10.04-LTS server KVM host for a couple of years now. The only > real issue I have had is that during a host reboot the 'thundering herd' > trying to autostart simultaneously sometimes doesn't reliably start all > 14 VMs and I have to manually launch the one or two VMs that fail to > launch. I used to see the same for RHEL5-based kvm-servers, but haven't seen this with any RHEL6-based servers that I would recommend for kvm installs now. > Also, I had to roll my own shutdown script because for whatever reason > Ubuntu 10.04 thinks shooting running VMs in the head during a shutdown > is a better approach than waiting for them to properly shutdown on request. I also tend to favour shutdown/reboots for kvm guests instead of suspend/resume... best regards, Florian La Roche