Thank you for your response. It is true I was not waiting long enough for the reboots to actually happen, though upon looking at the cron file, it is set to check every 5 minutes. Not a big deal, I can change it if I need to.
Though with the cdrom part of the question, upon your suggestion I set my vps to access the cdrom like this: vzctl set 104 --devices b:3:0:r --save I found the 3 and 0 from doing a ls -l /dev/hda So then I ssh'ed into vps 104 and tried mounting the cd with this: mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom/ but I tells me I must specify the fs type, so I do: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom/ And it tells me that iso9660 is not supported by the kernel. But I can mount the cd just fine on the HW node without specifying a fs type. Also, when you say "bindmount" do you mean just mount the cd under the vps's dir's, like this: mount /dev/had /vz/root/104/mnt/cdrom Or does bindmount mean something else? Am I missing something with the vzctl command? Thanks again Romeo On 12/18/06 4:24 AM, "Kirill Korotaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Romeo Theriault wrote: >> Hi, I have a program which needs to access a cdrom. What is the best way to >> access a cdrom via a vps? > # vzctl set --devices > or mount cdrom from host system and then bindmount to > /vz/root/<VEID>/mnt/cdrom > >> On another note, I noticed that from within a vps if I send the command >> "reboot", the vps goes down but does not come back up. I need to start it >> from the HN. It seems to me that this worked for me a few days ago. But I >> recently upgraded to the recently released stable kernel. Is this a possible >> cause? > check cron jobs on your host. cron job should check > rebooted VEs every minute and start them back. > Probably you have not waited for a minute :) > >> Also, is it recommended to shutdown all of the vps's before doing a reboot >> on the HN? I did a reboot today on the HN after installing the new kernel >> and got to thinking I probably should have stopped the vps's first. Is this >> true? > `service vz stop` does stop VEs first. So if you did a gracefull node reboot > VEs should have stopped automatically (service vz is stopped on node > shutdown). > Sure, apps should be stopped first for gracefull applications shutdown. > Otherwise some applications can be disappointed by broken/not-closed data > files. > >> Thanks for any insight in these matters. > You are welcome! > > Thanks, > Kirill > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
