From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Smith Subject: Re: [PATCH] Prevent xend from starting duplicate domains Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 06:36:03 -0700 Message-ID: <87u0gnrcu4.fsf@us.ibm.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Ian Pratt's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:04:37 +0100") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Ian Pratt Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org IP> When doing an 'xm destroy' on a domain I wander if xend should IP> rename it to zombie-? I thought about doing this exact thing, even putting 'zombie' in the name :) IP> That way, even if something has gone wrong and we're left with a IP> shell domain we'll still be able to restart one with the same IP> name. (obviously we should only do the rename once) In xm-test, this problem starts showing up towards the end of the test run, and increases in frequency. My guess is that if we were to do the rename once, it would occasionally allow another domain to be created, but under high load, would not help that much. -- Dan Smith IBM Linux Technology Center Open Hypervisor Team email: danms@us.ibm.com