[kernel-xen] starting DomU's after upgrade to 4.2.0

Joseph Fialkowski joe at zoomcloud.net
Thu Oct 11 09:08:59 EST 2012


On 10 Oct 2012, at 18:05, Steven Spencer wrote:

> On 10/10/2012 04:55 PM, Joseph Fialkowski wrote:
>> On 10 Oct 2012, at 17:51, Steven Spencer wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Was scheduling a reboot of a 4.2.0 install on a CentOS 6.2 DomO and
>>> realised that I do not know how to start a domain with the new xl
>>> commands.  I can always postpone the reboot for now.  Anyone have 
>>> this
>>> at their finger tips?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Steven G. Spencer
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>>
>>
>> I have not played with xl yet but I think its the same according to 
>> the
>> man page
>>
>> http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/unstable/man/xl.1.html
>>
>> EXAMPLES
>>
>> with config file
>>
>>   xl create DebianLenny
>>
>> This creates a domain with the file /etc/xen/DebianLenny, and
>> returns as soon as it is run.
>>
>>
>> -Joe
>> _______________________________________________
>
> Joe,
>
> The thing I'm concerned with is the absence of the start command.  
> With Xend and xm you used xm start domainname, with xl, there does not 
> appear to be a start command available.  Perhaps what you are saying 
> is the same as starting a domain with a specific config, i.e., xl 
> create <path to config file> but I guess I want to be sure before I 
> jump.  Currently my DomU's are up but I upgraded the kernel to 4.2.0 
> while they were alive and did not reboot the box, so I've got no 
> console at the moment.  (i.e., no way to view domain status, stop or 
> start them from within the list).
>
> Thanks for the response.
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I don't use the start command. I have always used "xm create 
/path/to/vps.cfg". That should still work in 4.2 as well according to 
other posts I have read on this list.

Joe


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