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Re: Hardware failure - "nova reboot / rescue"

 

Vish,

Yep reboot works ok for non running vms. And we're doing everything else via
custom scripts, just asking if theres a better way to do it :)

Regards
Lele

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Vishvananda Ishaya
<vishvananda@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Reboot should really allow you to reboot a non-running vm as well. This has
> worked at various times, so if it doesn't currently it should be filed as a
> bug.  As a workaround, you may be able to update the state in of the vm to
> shutdown manually in the db and execute a reboot command.  You can also go
> to the compute host and manually do a virsh define /path/to/libvirt.xml
> followed by a virsh start instance-xxxxxxxx
>
> Vish
>
> On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Leandro Reox wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In case of hardware failure, is there a way to restart the instances that
> have died on the crashed node on another node, without scripting (manual or
> automatic), any native function in nova cactus ? nova-reboot only restart
> domains in "shutdown" mode, on the same node after a reboot. And my domains
> if the node crash forever due hardware issue the VMs still in running state
> on db, cant issue nova-reboot either. Is there any method or i have to wait
> till diable "rescue" feature ?
> >
> > Regards
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