Sending a VM for restart (after it has been shutdown and saved)

2012-09-03 Thread Michael Johns
Hi list, I have been hacking the KVM-QEMU code, but need some help to be able to perform a particular operation. Currently, I perform some operations on the VM image after it has received a shutdown call, and after the image itself has been fully saved before KVM-QEMU shuts down. I perform these

Starting / stopping VMs

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Johns
Hi list, Before using KVM I was using Xen, and am hoping to see if I can do similar things in KVM. In Xen, I could watch for starting and stopping virtual machines by using a script which polled the XenStore, a small database from which small amounts of information about running machines which

Executing script in VM, from KVM

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Johns
Hi list, I have recently started using KVM, and I'm looking to see how I might be able to use and adapt KVM for my own purposes, to do things more easily on some of the virtual machines I use. To this end, I was wondering if it is possible to execute a script or run a command or a process within