Hi, I'd like to write an SMF service that will manage virtual machines. Upon startup it will connect to all (VirtualBox|xVM) VMs on the system, and 'do stuff' with them (collect their logs, be a watchdog for them, etc etc). I'd also like this service to shutdown the machines upon the host machine's shutdown. Specifically, I /don't/ want this service to "represent" the virtual machine in the sense that the VM starts when it starts and stops when it stops. It's a management aid service, not an 'SMF wrapper' for the VM.
But here I come to a distinction I'm not sure how to express with SMF. Shutting down a service and disbling a service both trigger the 'stop' method, but aren't really the same thing. What can I do to distinguish between the two? Am I designing this incorrectly? Any help will be appreciated, - Yaniv This message posted from opensolaris.org
