Re: VM-Tools 0.0.2

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:

> Hopefully this will be a configure option, I would like to have tools
> that I can install and run without needing a python installation on the
> machine, and that I can run out of my ~bin or similar.

Yes, that's the plan.

> I seem to have the following problems:
>
> 1) I can only mount disks read-only.

It currently defaults to read-only know.  The previous default was 
read/write.  I'm not sure why I changed that.  At any rate, you have to 
add a ',w' to the end of the block device option when calling 
vm-create.  That's not exposed in vm right now.  It's a pretty easy 
change to the vm script.

> 2) vm destroy leaves domains hanging in 'd-b---' zombie-like state 
> forever.

Yes, this broke during the rewrite.  It's a little difficult to handling 
closing an xcs connection in an elegant way.  If xcs doesn't have it's 
connection closed properly it never cleans up the domain.  The domain 
doesn't occupy any resources, it's just annoying.

I'm trying to operate on a weekly release schedule.  I thought it was 
better to get another version out even though this problem still existed.

I'm going to start a daily snapshot.  The URL will be:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/aliguori/vm-tools-latest.tar.gz

Expect a fix for #2 within the next day or two.

> Keep up the good work.

Thanks!

Regards,
Anthony Liguori

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