Thanks Lee for clarification. Then my next natural question is: what is the difference between stop instance and destroy instance (which are also shown on CloudStack UI)?
-min On 10/15/12 7:33 PM, "Gavin Lee" <gavin....@gmail.com> wrote: >It's by design, when you stop a VM (advanceStop() in >VirtualMachineManagerImpl) in CloudStack UI, it will delete all the vm >metadata info from xenserver database, it will reconstruct the vm >profile to xenserver db when you start again (advanceStart() in >VirtualMachineManagerImpl). > >It's easy to keep vm profile consistency since the only reference is >cloudstack database. > >On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Min Chen <min.c...@citrix.com> wrote: >> Hi there, >> What did we internally invoke when user is stopping VM >>instance from CloudStack UI? It seems that it did more than shutdown VM >>from XenCenter. After this operation, my VM disappeared from XenCenter >>console. If I manually do shutdown from XenCenter UI, I can see that my >>VM is still there with stopped status. >> Thanks >> -min > > > >-- >Gavin
