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4 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | Name |
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7 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | ganeti-kvmd - Ganeti KVM daemon |
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9 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | Synopsis |
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12 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | **ganeti-kvmd** |
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14 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | DESCRIPTION |
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17 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | The KVM daemon is responsible for determining whether a given KVM |
18 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | instance was shutdown by an administrator or a user. |
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20 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | The KVM daemon monitors, using ``inotify``, KVM instances through |
21 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | their QMP sockets, which are provided by KVM. Using the QMP sockets, |
22 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | the KVM daemon listens for particular shutdown, powerdown, and stop |
23 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | events which will determine if a given instance was shutdown by the |
24 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | user or Ganeti, and this result is communicated to Ganeti via a |
25 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | special file in the filesystem. |
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27 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | FILES |
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30 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | The KVM daemon monitors Qmp sockets of KVM instances, which are created |
31 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | in the KVM control directory, located under |
32 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | ``@LOCALSTATEDIR@/run/ganeti/kvm-hypervisor/ctrl/``. The KVM daemon |
33 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | also creates shutdown files in this directory. Finally, the KVM |
34 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | daemon's log file is located under |
35 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | ``@LOCALSTATEDIR@/log/ganeti/ganeti-kvmd.log``. Removal of the KVM |
36 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | control directory, the shutdown files, or the log file, will lead to no |
37 | f0caa4be | Jose A. Lopes | errors on the KVM daemon. |