Joop, I think you need to check if that is the same as "Start Once" , which I think it is.
This does only start it there for once, you might want to set a default server too. 2014-05-28 22:57 GMT+02:00 Joop <[email protected]>: > Joop wrote: >> >> Hi List, >> >> As per the subject, I have a desire to start a lot of VMs after a >> maintenance shutdown of our infrastructure and I would like to either evenly >> spread the load among the hosts or to restart the VMs on the host they were >> on before shutdown. >> Getting the list using ovirt-shell and transforming that to a 'action vm >> ABC start' is no problem but I can't find if its possible to specify the >> host to run the VM on. >> Is this possible using ovirt-shell and can someone point me to some docs? >> (Have read (all) the rhevm docs but either overlooked or its not there) >> > Answering my own question: > The help describes something about parent identifiers and references the > examples below but there is no example of how to use parent identifiers. > Extrapolating from disks belonging to a vm a reasoned that vms belong to a > host so did 'list hosts' and copied the id. It says 'An object identifier is > an option of the form '--<type>id <id>' but it looks this is confusing, > atleast to me. > This is what worked: > action vm VM_NAME start --type ID_OF_HOST > > The help has 2x id which confuses me. > > Joop > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
