Hi, Maybe you can use libvirt hooks[1] to notify oned via the xmlrpc that the VMs have shut down?
[1] http://libvirt.org/hooks.html Andrei On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Simon Boulet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Here our driver reports the state as returned by Libvirt [1], which > reports VM terminated from the inside (shutdown) as Paused. When the > OpenNebula driver sees a VM as being reported as paused [2], it > switches the VM to SUSPENDED state in OpenNebula. Then you can restart > the VM by issuing the resume action [3]. > > So, I think OpenNebula has the building blocks for that, but I'm just > unsure how it is implemented in the different OpenNebula drivers. > > [1] > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/VM_lifecycle#States_that_a_guest_domain_can_be_in > [2] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:devel-vmm#poll_information > [3] http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:api#onevmaction > > Simon > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Parag Mhashilkar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Sharuzzaman, > > > > Thanks for your response. I am aware of the fact that OpenNebula > requires human intervention when shutdown is issued from inside the VM. We > can write scripts to do lot of things, but when in the business of resource > provisioning, the resource provider does not necessarily control what runs > in the VM, application that launches them and for obvious reasons I am not > giving any access to ONE's database to the users. So these alternatives > seem merely hacks rather than a much cleaner solution from the service. > > > > Such a feature is useful from a infrastructure provider's point of view. > If AWS has done it (and Openstack I think) then there be a way out. > > > > -Parag > > > > > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 9:27 PM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: > > > >> Hi Parag, > >> > >> I believe OpenNebula need to have human intervention to really > determine whether to remove or not the VM that it has deployed. > >> > >> I also think that you can write a script that signal or call OpenNebula > command as soon as the task finish, to shutdown the VM. Or if direct > calling command not possible, maybe your application can write some status > in a database, and a script in OpenNebula read that status and make > decision from it. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Parag Mhashilkar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Does OpenNebula EC2 interface support shutting down a VM from with in > the VM itself and have the scheduler recognize that VM has been > stopped/shutdown? How do we enable this feature? At Fermi, we have > OpenNebula v3.2 and when the VM is shutdown it stays in the UNKNOWN state. > Can OpenNebula get this ACPI shutdown info from virsh and handle the > situation more gracefully rather than putting the VM in UKNOWN state? > >> > >> Here is an example why I think something like this is useful: > >> > >> When VMs are launched to perform certain tasks (classical equivalent of > batch nodes), only the processes running in the VM know when the task is > done and can shutdown the VM freeing up the resources. Running VM past the > task life is wasted resources and controlling the lifetime of VM from > outside is not always possible. > >> > >> In case of AWS, it supports following which is very good feature to > have when controlling the VMs in above scenario. > >> ec2-run-instaces --instance-initiated-shutdown-behavior <stop|terminate> > >> > >> How do we achieve this with Opennebula? > >> > >> Thanks & Regards > >> +========================================================== > >> | Parag Mhashilkar > >> | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, MS 120 > >> | Wilson & Kirk Road, Batavia, IL - 60510 > >> |---------------------------------------------------------- > >> | Phone: 1 (630) 840-6530 Fax: 1 (630) 840-2783 > >> |---------------------------------------------------------- > >> | Wilson Hall, 806E (Nov 8, 2012 - To date) > >> | Wilson Hall, 867E (Nov 17, 2010 - Nov 7, 2012) > >> | Wilson Hall, 863E (Apr 24, 2007 - Nov 16, 2010) > >> | Wilson Hall, 856E (Mar 21, 2005 - Apr 23, 2007) > >> +========================================================== > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Users mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org >
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