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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2012 20:34:30 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
To:        freebsd-xen@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Citrix Xenserver and FreeBSD migration/suspend scripts
Message-ID:  <op.wisxbsuj34t2sn@me-pc>
In-Reply-To: <20120810.034203.52110126.moto@kawasaki3.org>
References:  <op.wiqp5jlb34t2sn@tech304> <20120809.094910.243541404.moto@kawasaki3.org> <61BCA99E-2574-4987-ACD9-E84A3AEBD2A3@ramattack.net> <20120810.034203.52110126.moto@kawasaki3.org>

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On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 13:42:03 -0500, moto kawasaki <moto@kawasaki3.org>  
wrote:

> 1) XenCenter shows warning as;
>      "XenServer Tools out of date (version 6.0 installed)"
>   Changing MicroVersion from 0 to 2 in xe-update-guest-attr file
>    doesn't have effect on this issue.
>     xenstore_write_cached "attr/PVAddons/MicroVersion" "2"
>                                                         ^^^
>                                                        0 to 2

On XenServer 6.0.0 the current settings work fine. I imagine we need to  
investigate what version the tools are on other platforms and emulate that  
version accordingly.

> 2) "Shutdown" button on XenCenter works but doesn't complete.
>    I guess XenServer/XenCenter expect something like "shutdown -p now"
>    on the FreeBSD VM, but actually it runs like "shutdown -h now".
>    Thus, FreeBSD VM has shut down, but doesn't cut its power, thus
>    XenCenter remains on the way shutting down (VM icon stays in
>    green, not goes to red.).

I haven't looked to see how this is handled at all, but I bet it's  
something we can fix.

> 3) Moving VM from one member host to another in the pool works.
>    wow!!

Thanks for giving us another confirmation!



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