Hi Asai, In short – no that is not a use case CloudStack is designed for, the VM states are controlled by CloudStack management. You should however look at using HA service offerings and host HA (if you meet all the pre-requisites). Between these mechanisms VMs can be brought up on other hosts if a host goes down.
Alternatively if you are looking to trigger an automated startup of VMs I suggest you simply script this with e.g. cloudmonkey. Keep in mind this still requires a healthy management server though. Regards, Dag Sonstebo Cloud Architect ShapeBlue On 15/08/2018, 16:47, "Asai" <a...@globalchangemusic.org> wrote: Thanks, Dag, On boot of the server, I would like the VMs to start up automatically, rather than me having to go to the management console and start them manually. We suffered some downtime and in restarting the hardware, I had to manually get everything back up and running. Asai dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue > On Aug 15, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Dag Sonstebo <dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com> wrote: > > Hi Asai, > > Can you explain a bit more what you are trying to achieve? Everything in CloudStack is controlled by the management server, not the KVM host, and in general the assumption is a KVM host is always online. > > Regards, > Dag Sonstebo > Cloud Architect > ShapeBlue > > On 15/08/2018, 03:38, "Asai" <a...@globalchangemusic.org> wrote: > > Greetings, > > Can anyone offer advice on how to autostart VMs at boot time using KVM? There doesn’t seem to be any documentation for this in the CS docs. We’re on CS 4.9.2.0. > > I tried doing it with virsh autostart, but it just throws an error. > > Thank you, > Asai > > > > dag.sonst...@shapeblue.com > www.shapeblue.com > 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK > @shapeblue > > >