Re: [Xen-users] Xen scripting

[Jonas Björklund <jb@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote:

> Easiest to just make a start script for dom-u's that results in xm start
> (cfgfile) being called after the laundry list of things needing to
> happen to start the guest have been satisfied.
>
> Herbert Zu's port of dash is a great shell to use for scripting on
> dom-0, nice and lightweight :
>
> http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/ (85k stripped) opposed to 630k
> for bash and over a meg for perl.
>
> I further modified mine to take out things like printf, mail checks and
> other stuff not really used to make it a bit smaller, and have been
> adding some goodies in the builtins :)
>
> I suggest making scripts named start, stop, pause, unpause, reboot,
> usually those are the commands where you find you need to do extra
> things such as check on network storage or bring up a bridge / nic in a
> special way.
A start script doesn't run when a domU reboot. I need to do things with 
the vif ($vif is exported) and also the name (I canät find $name 
exported anywhere) of the domU.
Thanks anyway.

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