From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michal Novotny Subject: Xen Domain Restore Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:58:57 +0100 Message-ID: <4992A161.7040103@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Hi, I have read a bug on BZ about the checkpoint file (save file) should be deleted after a successful Xen domain restore because it can lead to disk corruption. There were 3 options suggested: deleting the file, renaming the file to somewhat that won't be restored at dom0 startup (like Richard W.M. Jones suggested, renaming it to a dot-file because those files are not restored by xendomains script) or having an option in xend-config.sxp configuration file. We may either let libvirt do it itself or we may change xend daemon. Anyway I think it would be better to have this option configurable in xend-config.sxp with option to override it via xm/virsh. Eg. you may have some system running on a read-only file system and all data could be on some another system (eg. connected via NFS). What do you think about that? Any suggestions? Thanks, Michal