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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: no xl monitor process with xl create -V
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:52:41 +0200
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On Fri, Oct 12, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 19:15 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > When I create a HVM guest with 'xl -v -v create -d -V -f cfg' there is
> > no xl process to monitor the guest. As a result a guest shutdown is not
> > handled. Without the -V option the xl process exists and after guest
> > shutdown the domain disappears.
> 
> Sounds like a bug in the implementation of -V to me.
> 
> > Any idea how to fix this? Its with 4.2.
> 
> Is it exiting deliberately or crashing? What do the logs say?

There is no xl logfile, and nothing which indicates an error. I suspect
something does 'exec vncviewer' within xl.

Olaf