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a24aed2a 01/23/2012 01:21 pm Michael Hanselmann

gnt-cluster command: Add option to prepend node name to output

With this patch a new option (“-M”, like dsh) is added to “gnt-cluster
command” to prepend the node name to all output lines.

$ gnt-cluster command -M uname -a | grep Linux
node18.example.com: Linux node18.example.com [...]...

2c0af7da 01/18/2012 06:03 pm Guido Trotter

gnt-instance modify -m|--runtime-memory

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

893e8f49 01/16/2012 10:36 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-instance: Adapt replace-disks to the new opcode

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

9fdd3d0f 01/13/2012 03:16 pm Iustin Pop

Switch hspace to read the disk template from the cluster

The default disk template is the first enabled template.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

0ce212e5 01/13/2012 03:16 pm Iustin Pop

Move the instance specs options to cli.py

Currently these are defined twice, instead of a single time in
cli.py. Also adds the new disk_templates option to the common block,
even though it's not yet used.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

be468da0 01/13/2012 03:16 pm Iustin Pop

Switch hspace defaults to the cluster policy

This changes from the current hardcoded defaults to the cluster
policy. The command line options now override the defaults from the
cluster, and the tiered spec mode is always enabled.

Also fixes a tiny typo in the man page (together with the man page...

294bb337 01/11/2012 01:12 pm Iustin Pop

Change how hspace reads cmdline args for std specs

For the standard specs, hspace currently takes separate options for
the memory, disk and VCPUs. For the tiered specs, which were
introduced later, it takes a single option with all three values
combined....

729ed537 01/09/2012 01:56 pm Bernardo Dal Seno

Document "gnt-node add" behavior in case of failure

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

9fa567b3 01/06/2012 02:47 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-node: Add instance policy to migrate

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

2a84b7d3 01/06/2012 02:46 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-backup: Adding force option to import

This makes it possible to bypass the instance policy

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

10889e0c 01/06/2012 02:46 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-instance: Adding instance policy to add

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

1559e1e7 01/06/2012 02:46 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-instance: Adding verification of instance policy to modify

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

92cf62e3 01/06/2012 02:46 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-instance: Adding instance policy to move

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

3ed23330 01/06/2012 02:46 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-instance: Adding instance policy to migrate

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

b6aaf437 01/06/2012 02:46 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-instance: Adding instance policy to failover

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

9f2c2103 01/05/2012 05:30 pm Michael Hanselmann

man/gnt-node: Improve powercycle documentation

Reword a bit, capitalize “SSH”.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

b0943462 12/17/2011 12:46 am Andrea Spadaccini

Add docs for missing option in gnt-debug man page

Document the --each option of gnt-debug submit-job.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

085e0d9f 12/16/2011 10:30 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-node: Add hv/disk state to add

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

e4c03256 12/16/2011 10:30 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-group: Add hv/disk state to add

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

c4929a8b 12/16/2011 10:30 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-cluster: Add hv/disk state to init

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

9475189d 12/12/2011 04:04 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Document DRBD dynamic resync params in man pages

Also, remove some spurious spaces in the documentation of other options
and uniform the style of the disk parameters descriptions, by
terminating them with a period and adding the measurement unit in square...

d6033c14 12/09/2011 05:47 pm Agata Murawska

Man page for gnt-group

Signed-off-by: Agata Murawska <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

e37c5129 12/09/2011 05:47 pm Agata Murawska

Man page for gnt-cluster

Signed-off-by: Agata Murawska <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

a46b1883 12/08/2011 01:36 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add documentation for disk parameters to man pages

Document the stripes parameter for the plain template and the
resync-rate, datastripes, metastripes, disk-barriers, meta-barriers,
metavg, disk-custom and meta-custom parameters for the drbd template.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>...

11dc66f3 12/08/2011 11:51 am Bernardo Dal Seno

Add new back-end parameter "always_failover"

Instances that have this parameter is set to True are never migrated, but
instead they can only fail over. There are some cases where freezing the
kernel may cause problems, and hence this behavior is preferable....

1cdc9dbb 12/08/2011 11:40 am Bernardo Dal Seno

manpages: Fix small errors in documentation

Mostly typos, except for the output of "gnt-instance migrate" in an
example, which has been updated to the current version

Signed-off-by: Bernardo Dal Seno <>
Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

2da9f556 12/08/2011 10:48 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-cluster: Allow modify disk/hv state

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

a8282327 12/08/2011 10:48 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-group: Allow modify disk/hv state

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

0ec2ce46 12/08/2011 10:48 am René Nussbaumer

gnt-node: Allow modify disk/hv state

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

90bb3fe1 11/22/2011 07:55 pm Guido Trotter

manpages: update beparams explanations

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

bafb5067 11/17/2011 05:24 pm Agata Murawska

Man page update: online/offline state of instance

Signed-off-by: Agata Murawska <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

d29036c1 11/17/2011 03:49 pm Iustin Pop

Warn if we enable maintain-node-health without confd

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

bf689b7a 11/14/2011 05:18 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add --use-external-mip-script flag

- add a command line flag to gnt-cluster init and modify to change the
value of the cluster parameter use_external_mip_script;
- add two constants representing the paths of the default script and of
the external script;...

d24303b3 11/04/2011 02:21 pm René Nussbaumer

ganeti(7): Adding documentation about env variables

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

e19ee6e4 10/11/2011 11:25 am Iustin Pop

Remove the oneline output option in hbal

This was, AFAIK, never used, and complicates the output code enough
that it's better to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

830fc5da 10/07/2011 02:19 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Document --ignore-errors and --error-codes

Update the man page of gnt-cluster to contain the documentation of the
--ignore-errors and --error-codes verify options. Also, include the list
of the error codes and their documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>...

5a8648eb 10/05/2011 12:05 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add cluster netmask parameter

Add the master_netmask cluster parameter, that represents the netmask of
the master IP, encoded as a CIDR suffix.

This parameter can be set via the --master-netmask of gnt-cluster init
and gnt-cluster modify. The default behaviour is to be consistent with...

3398bff1 09/30/2011 06:23 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Merge branch 'devel-2.5'

  • devel-2.5:
    Use --yes to deactivate master ip in cluster merge
    Use deactivate-master-ip in cluster-merge
    Add gnt-cluster commands to toggle the master IP
    Split starting and stopping master IP and daemons
    listrunner: Don't pass arguments if there are none...
cea3abbd 09/30/2011 05:45 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Merge branch 'stable-2.5' into devel-2.5

  • stable-2.5:
    listrunner: Don't pass arguments if there are none
    ssh: Quote strings in error message
    utils.log: Write error messages to stderr
    Add signal handling doc to hbal man page
    Fix handling of cluster verify hooks...
fb44c6db 09/30/2011 03:43 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add gnt-cluster commands to toggle the master IP

lib/client/gnt_cluster.py:
  • Add activate-master-ip and deactivate-master-ip commands
man/gnt-cluster.rst:
  • Document the new commands
lib/opcodes.py lib/cmdlib.py
  • Add two opcodes and the LU that call the relevant RPCs...
fb926117 09/30/2011 02:06 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add gnt-cluster commands to toggle the master IP

lib/client/gnt_cluster.py:
  • Add activate-master-ip and deactivate-master-ip commands
man/gnt-cluster.rst:
  • Document the new commands
lib/opcodes.py lib/cmdlib.py
  • Add two opcodes and the LU that call the relevant RPCs...
2b634302 09/30/2011 12:27 pm Iustin Pop

Add signal handling doc to hbal man page

Also remove a bug note, since hbal can now for a long time directly
execute jobs.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

b8a2c0ab 09/29/2011 10:16 am Iustin Pop

Add an allocation limit to hspace

This is very useful for testing/benchmarking.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Agata Murawska <>

acd9fa11 09/23/2011 02:04 pm Iustin Pop

htools: man page improvements

This patch moves all the backend options into the main htools man
page, and it adds documentation for the -t option, which so far was
not documented w.r.t. the file structure.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

2ef8013f 09/23/2011 02:04 pm Iustin Pop

hspace: add short forms for the group policy

This adds a shortened versions of the allocation policies, as writing
out the whole name in the command line can become tedious.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Agata Murawska <>

3e40b587 09/20/2011 06:03 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add tls_ciphers and use_vdagent options

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

b8a10435 09/20/2011 05:04 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Updated man pages with new SPICE TLS options

man/gnt-cluster.rst:
  • documented the --new-spice-certificate, --spice-certificate and
    --spice-ca-certificate options of renew-crypto.
man/gnt-instance.rst:
  • documented the spice_use_tls KVM hypervisor option....
ea064d24 09/13/2011 03:35 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Add SPICE compression and streaming options

Add the following SPICE audio/image compression and video streaming
detection hypervisor options:

  • spice_image_compression
  • spice_jpeg_wan_compression
  • spice_zlib_glz_wan_compression
  • spice_streaming_video...
b451c4c7 09/03/2011 01:03 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Added password for SPICE sessions

Added an optional parameter called spice_password_file that allows
the user to protect the SPICE login with the password contained in
the specified file.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

6eedd356 08/30/2011 12:34 pm Michael Hanselmann

listrunner: Allow passing of arguments to executable

This wasn't possible until now.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

b7d7876b 08/19/2011 04:23 pm Agata Murawska

Documentation fix for importing with --src-dir option

Signed-off-by: Agata Murawska <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

3ef02bec 08/12/2011 06:26 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Added documentation for gnt-instance remove --force in the man page

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

c7570029 08/12/2011 06:08 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Added documentation for SPICE options in the gnt-instance man page

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

037c7b95 08/09/2011 03:32 pm Michael Hanselmann

Mention globbing filters in ganeti(7) manpage

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

88df1fa9 08/08/2011 12:29 pm Iustin Pop

Revert deprecation of evacuate mode in hail

As discussed offline, the new node-change mode could be used for
evacuation, but it's not directly useful as it returns a list of
opcodes; therefore, we need to partially revert commits fbe5fcf and
5b53ca7 that removed it (and multi-evacuate, which remains removed)....

16629d10 08/05/2011 05:16 pm Michael Hanselmann

Implement globbing operator for filters

The operators “=*” and “!*” do globbing in filters, e.g.:

$ gnt-instance list --no-headers -o name 'name =* "*.site"'
inst1.site.example.com

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

bd2a5569 08/04/2011 04:18 pm Michael Hanselmann

Add “gnt-instance change-group” command

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

a6a3efe4 08/03/2011 07:21 pm Iustin Pop

Fix documentation of gnt-instance failover

Explain that we only start the instance on the new node if it was
originally running.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

78623223 08/03/2011 06:28 pm Iustin Pop

Small doc patch for gnt-node evacuate

Just explain a bit the relation between node evacuate and instance
commands.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

71ed8d22 08/03/2011 05:17 pm René Nussbaumer

gnt-node.rst: Fix a typo

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

990ade2d 07/29/2011 01:59 pm Stephen Shirley

Add "reboot_behavior" hypervisor flag

During instance installations, you do not want the instance to reboot
and start again with the same parameters, as that will most likely
re-start the install process. Therefore, when the instance requests a
reboot it should instead shutdown. This flag allows this to be...

7548d53c 07/29/2011 12:20 pm Andrea Spadaccini

Removed non-existing -t option from the gnt-cluster man page

Signed-off-by: Andrea Spadaccini <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

896a03f6 07/29/2011 11:49 am Iustin Pop

Clear the OS scripts environment

The OS scripts currently run with the whole noded environment; this is
different from the hooks which run with a cleared one and most likely
an oversight.

This might create problems when upgrading, so it needs to be clearly...

35007011 07/28/2011 02:08 pm Iustin Pop

Remove requirement for variants on OS API v15+

This removes:

- the check in backend that such OSes have a variants file or if it
exists that is non-empty; in order for this to work, we also rework
the logic in backend._TryOSFromDisk to allow for optional OS files...

5b53ca79 07/21/2011 02:52 pm Iustin Pop

htools: update hail man page with the new modes

Also mark the deprecated modes we no longer support.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

375969eb 07/21/2011 02:49 pm Iustin Pop

htools: add human-readable output to hspace

Currently, hspace can only output a machine-readable format that
(while detailed) is hard to parse quickly by people. This patch adds
(and enables by default) a human-readable output that shows the most
important metrics in a simple format....

f6eb380d 07/21/2011 12:39 pm Michael Hanselmann

gnt-group: Add command to evacuate whole group

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

4f580fef 07/21/2011 08:38 am Sébastien Bocahu

Add support for KVM keymaps

Signed-off-by: Sébastien Bocahu <>
Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

d7731f51 07/19/2011 06:06 pm Iustin Pop

htools: move the '-p' option to htools.rst

Since this is a common option and has a big description.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

d26d808a 07/19/2011 05:14 pm Iustin Pop

htools: add a generic binary

This is the start of a series of patches that will unify all the
binaries currently in use in a single one, which can perform different
roles based on the name it is installed as.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

4162995d 07/18/2011 06:27 pm Iustin Pop

htools: add cluster state saving support to hail

This add support for saving the cluster state (both pre- and
post-iallocator run) to a text file such that it can be fed back into
any of the htools commands.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

f815aa89 07/14/2011 03:32 pm Iustin Pop

htools: fix a doc bug in the hbal man page

Similar to the previous hspace fix.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

8dda364e 07/14/2011 12:05 pm Iustin Pop

hspace: also display the starting tiered specs

These are useful for checking what instance specifications we start
with (as they are not necessarily the first entry in the TSPEC map).

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

247f77b7 07/14/2011 12:05 pm Iustin Pop

hspace: add support for units in the options

This patch converts hspace to allow units in all disk and memory
specifications, and updates the man page accordingly. It also correct
a mistake in the man page for the --max-cpu option.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

1cc97b7f 07/13/2011 01:45 pm Iustin Pop

hspace: also report the disk template

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

9ef605a6 07/13/2011 01:45 pm Iustin Pop

hspace: ask for the disk_template not number of nodes

This makes more sense, as the disk template is more meaningful than
the number of nodes.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

b6e88032 07/12/2011 06:23 pm Michael Hanselmann

gnt-cluster {command|copyfile}: Support per-group operations

This patch allows commands to be run on and files to be copied to all
nodes within a specific group.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

b795a775 07/11/2011 05:53 pm Michael Hanselmann

Merge branch 'devel-2.4'

  • devel-2.4:
    ht: Add new check for numbers
    Fix off-by-one bug in job serial generation
    Shorten some unbreakable lines in man pages
    Correct some spelling mistakes
    Fix bug in recreate-disks for DRBD instances
    Fix a lint warning...
323f9095 07/08/2011 03:15 pm Stephen Shirley

Add gnt-instance start --pause

Creates the instance, but pauses execution before booting. This combined
with 'gnt-instance console' unpausing instances means that the entire
boot process can be viewed and monitored.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Shirley <>...

aafee533 07/06/2011 12:31 am Michael Hanselmann

Change “gnt-node evacuate” to use new opcode

By default it'll now evacuate all instances from the node, not
just secondaries.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

56a1d5cc 07/01/2011 05:17 pm Iustin Pop

Shorten some unbreakable lines in man pages

In order to make the display right on 80-columns terminals.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

f7b769b1 07/01/2011 05:17 pm Iustin Pop

Correct some spelling mistakes

New lintian is even smarter:

- overriden → overridden
- allows to → allows one to

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

bcd87e22 06/17/2011 11:41 am Guido Trotter

--select-instances hbal manpage update

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

fa23cc50 06/14/2011 03:46 pm Stephen Shirley

Fix a couple of typos

Signed-off-by: Stephen Shirley <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

b790839a 06/01/2011 05:29 pm Iustin Pop

hail: add option for displaying the parsed request

This can be used for debugging.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Guido Trotter <>

0aa71dbd 05/31/2011 07:38 pm Guido Trotter

Update hbal manpage for --no-instance-moves

Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

3f1e065d 05/24/2011 06:22 pm Iustin Pop

gnt-debug: rename allocator to iallocator

I'm always confused by this strange difference, so let's rename the
command to match what it tests.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

40167d65 05/20/2011 01:37 pm Adeodato Simo

Cluster verify: accept a --node-group option

This will trigger a ClusterVerifyGroup operation only on the specified
group, skipping other groups as well as cluster-wide verifications.

Signed-off-by: Adeodato Simo <>
Signed-off-by: Guido Trotter <>...

6aac5aef 05/20/2011 11:11 am Iustin Pop

Merge remote branch 'origin/devel-2.4'

  • origin/devel-2.4:
    Fix errors in hooks documentation
    Clarify a bit the noded man page
    Note --no-remember in NEWS
    Switch QA over to using instance stop --no-remember
    Implement no_remember at RAPI level
    Implement no_remember at CLI level...
dfba45b1 05/17/2011 12:09 pm Stephen Shirley

Various grammar fixes and updates

Signed-off-by: Stephen Shirley <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

b578501b 05/16/2011 04:24 pm Iustin Pop

Clarify a bit the noded man page

"This can be overriden" can be read as either the port we listen on or
the address we bind to. Replace with "The port" for great clarity!

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

885a0fc4 05/16/2011 04:24 pm Iustin Pop

Implement no_remember at CLI level

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: René Nussbaumer <>

bb851c63 05/12/2011 03:40 pm Iustin Pop

Fix a bug in LUInstanceMove

The opcode parameter ignore_consistency was used in the LU, but not
actually declared in the OpCode. The patch adds it in the opcode and
the command line client.

ObQuote — Please, please, can I have static typing?

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>...

93384b8c 05/11/2011 05:14 pm Guido Trotter

Merge branch 'devel-2.4'

  • devel-2.4:
    Use floppy disk and a second CDROM on KVM
    Document the selection of instance kernels
    Make root_path an optional hypervisor parameter
    Some man page updates
    Add 2 new variables to the OS scripts environment
    Add --no-wait-for-sync when converting to drbd...
7adf7814 05/10/2011 11:48 am René Nussbaumer

Make root_path an optional hypervisor parameter

This will allow us an easy migration to pv-grub, because a set root_path
confused pv-grub.

Signed-off-by: René Nussbaumer <>
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>

0a68e0ff 05/09/2011 03:26 pm Iustin Pop

Some man page updates

This adds documentation for both the short and long form of many
options (which was inconsistent before: in some cases only the short
form was used, in others only the long form).

Note that the standard this patch adopts is to document both forms as...

456798ab 05/09/2011 02:22 pm Iustin Pop

Add --no-wait-for-sync when converting to drbd

Currently, when converting an instance from plain to DRBD, the
instance is blocked during the entire resync period. This patch adds
the --no-wait-for-sync so that the operation finishes as soon as the
DRBD sync has started, without waiting for the entire sync. This makes...

c8a96ae7 05/09/2011 12:18 pm Iustin Pop

Recreate instance disks: allow changing nodes

This patch introduces the option of changing an instance's nodes when
doing the disk recreation. The rationale is that currently if an
instance lives on a node that has gone down and is marked offline,
it's not possible to re-create the disks and reinstall the instance on...

9d0671ba 05/04/2011 03:13 pm Iustin Pop

Re-wrap and fix formatting issues in gnt-instance.rst

This is mostly rewrapping plus fixing a few small issues in
gnt-instance.rst.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
Reviewed-by: Michael Hanselmann <>

81dd9bd1 05/04/2011 12:25 pm Marco Casavecchia

Documentation for the new parameters for KVM

Options added/updated are: cdrom2_image_path, floppy_image_path,
cdrom_disk_type and boot_order.

Signed-off-by: Iustin Pop <>
[: small formatting update]
Reviewed-by: Iustin Pop <>