[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH] add create_and_lock_config and use it to implement autostart after create

[Wolfgang Bumiller]

applied series, and sending a followup commit...

On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 04:37:37PM +0200, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> This aligns the VM creation code more with the CT one.
> We to not lock and then execute a worker but rather fork the worker
> first and lock there then, which allows nested flock-ing if needed.
> 
> Add a small helper which creates a new locked (vm creation/restore to
> new) or just locks the existing one (vm restore to existing) before even
> forking the worker - which improves responsiveness and API usability
> as we abort early not only once we forked and checked in the locked
> context of the worker.
> 
> With this then we can add a property which let's the VM auto start after
> it was created successfully.
> 
> This is more a RFC for if the general approach is OK, I did not yet
> tried to test through edge cases.
> 
> Thomas Lamprecht (3):
>   API/create: move locking inside worker
>   reserve config with create lock early
>   api create: allow auto vm start after create finished
> 
>  PVE/API2/Qemu.pm | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
> 
> Thomas Lamprecht (1):
>   add create_and_lock_config
> 
>  PVE/AbstractConfig.pm | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
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> 2.17.1