Re: edge case with virt-manager and multiple connections

[Brenton Leanhardt <bleanhar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

+++ Cole Robinson [22/04/09 11:12 -0400]:
> Brenton Leanhardt wrote:
> > I'm using virt-manager 0.6.0 on F10 and I came across an edge case
> > with regard to managing multiple connections.  In my case the domain
> > xml files were mounted via NFS and shared across multiple hosts.  
> >
> > This obviously leads to guests on each machine having the same uuid.
> > I expected each of my 3 virt hosts to list all the domains and to be
> > able to select where I wanted a particular guest to be started.  What
> > I didn't expect was that once I started a guest on one domain it
> > immediately showed up as "Running" on the other two virt hosts.
> > Stopping the VM on the correct host also behaves as expected.
> >
> > Is this a case virt-manager should handle?  I could attempt a patch if
> > given a bit of guidance.  Namely,
> >
> > Should a vmmDomain have knowledge of which host is running on?
> >
> > Should there be seperate instances for each host even though they have
> > the same uuid (which in this case is not really a uuid).
> >
> > Would it be best to simply patch the UI to handle this edge case?
>
> Thanks for looking to patch this, but this should actually be fixed in
> virt-manager-0.6.1 which I plan on pushing to F10. The commits are:
>
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/9c4afb8ad1e6
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-virt.cgi/applications/virt-manager--devel/rev/4e7c3f99f0db
>
> The issue was that we were using only UUID as the unique identifier for
> rows in the manager window, which was switched to using connection URI +
> UUID.
>
> Thanks,
> Cole

Excellent!  I'll checkout the code and see if it works for me.

--Brenton

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