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On 06/25/2014 04:28 AM, Belmiro Moreira wrote:
> I like the current behavior of not changing the VM state if nova-compute
> goes down. 
> 
> The cloud operators can identify the issue in the compute node and try
> to fix it without users noticing. Depending in the problem I can inform
> users if instances are affected and change the state if necessary. 
> 
> I wouldn't like is to expose any failure in nova-compute to users and be
> contacted because VM state changed. 

Agreed. Plus in the perfectly normal case of an upgrade of a compute
node, it's expected that nova-compute is going to be down for some
period of time, and it's 100% expected that the VMs remain up and ACTIVE
over that period.

Setting VMs to ERROR would totally gum that up.

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague
http://dague.net

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