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| author | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com> | 2008-01-25 13:28:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@citrix.com> | 2008-01-25 13:28:25 +0000 |
| commit | 961f9b1fc95c51ed8f076782835d148b040d0005 (patch) | |
| tree | bd91a386df38715f661271725aef02b5ba079113 /docs | |
| parent | bb09427c71cd621637565fb906c2114a2a6878cf (diff) | |
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(Re)introduce notion of crashed VM power state.
The crashed power state is necessary to allow both core-dumping a
crashed but preserved VM and renaming/restarting a crashed VM.
Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@novell.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/xen-api/vm-lifecycle.tex | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/xen-api/vm_lifecycle.dot | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/xen-api/xenapi-datamodel.tex | 1 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/xen-api/vm-lifecycle.tex b/docs/xen-api/vm-lifecycle.tex index b082356935..c584b67e33 100644 --- a/docs/xen-api/vm-lifecycle.tex +++ b/docs/xen-api/vm-lifecycle.tex @@ -21,7 +21,10 @@ \end{figure} Figure~\ref{fig-vm-lifecycle} shows the states that a VM can be in -and the API calls that can be used to move the VM between these states. +and the API calls that can be used to move the VM between these states. The crashed +state indicates that the guest OS running within the VM has crashed. There is no +API to explicitly move to the crashed state, however a hardShutdown will move the +VM to the powered down state. \section{VM boot parameters} diff --git a/docs/xen-api/vm_lifecycle.dot b/docs/xen-api/vm_lifecycle.dot index fdc97523e2..2c062f98d0 100644 --- a/docs/xen-api/vm_lifecycle.dot +++ b/docs/xen-api/vm_lifecycle.dot @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ digraph g{ -node [shape=box]; "powered down" paused running suspended; +node [shape=box]; "powered down" paused running suspended crashed; "powered down" -> paused [label="start(paused=true)"]; "powered down" -> running [label="start(paused=false)"]; @@ -11,5 +11,7 @@ paused -> suspended [label="suspend"]; paused -> running [label="resume"]; running -> "powered down" [label="cleanShutdown /\nhardShutdown"]; running -> paused [label="pause"]; +running -> crashed [label="guest OS crash"] +crashed -> "powered down" [label="hardShutdown"] }
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/xen-api/xenapi-datamodel.tex b/docs/xen-api/xenapi-datamodel.tex index c6a95883a5..102b59e04c 100644 --- a/docs/xen-api/xenapi-datamodel.tex +++ b/docs/xen-api/xenapi-datamodel.tex @@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ The following enumeration types are used: \hspace{0.5cm}{\tt Paused} & Paused \\ \hspace{0.5cm}{\tt Running} & Running \\ \hspace{0.5cm}{\tt Suspended} & Suspended \\ +\hspace{0.5cm}{\tt Crashed} & Crashed \\ \hspace{0.5cm}{\tt Unknown} & Some other unknown state \\ \hline \end{longtable} |