[PVE-User] shutdown -r in VZ guests != reboot

[mykel at mWare.ca]

On 2010-01-16 12:24, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>> On 2010-01-16 11:25, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>>      
>>>> When I do a shutdown -r in an OpenVZ guest, it goes down nicely, but
>>>> the
>>>> management system leaves it 'mounted' without it starting up again.
>>>> This
>>>> is no issue with KVM guests, but requires VZ guests request an
>>>> administrator to do their reboots for them... is this supposed to be
>>>> the
>>>> case? Is there a workaround or some other option?
>>>>
>>>> I did some quick searches around the Wiki but didn't see any
>>>>          
>> references
>>      
>>>> to this.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> You just need to wait a few minutes (<5). There is a cron job which
>>>        
>> restarts the VMs.
>>      
>>>
>>>        
>> Is that only if 'Start On Boot' is checked? Because in 8+ hours, it
>> didn't start - but I don't have it set to start on boot...
>>      
> No, should work anyways. What kind of OS do you use inside the container?
>    
Your 'Official' templates of CentOS 5.2.1 and the recently released 
Debian 6. This isn't a new problem either.