Name

       ganeti-kvmd - Ganeti KVM daemon

Synopsis

       ganeti-kvmd

DESCRIPTION

       The  KVM  daemon  is  responsible  for  determining  whether  a  given  KVM  instance  was shutdown by an
       administrator or a user.

       The KVM daemon monitors, using inotify, KVM instances through their QMP sockets, which  are  provided  by
       KVM.   Using  the QMP sockets, the KVM daemon listens for particular shutdown, powerdown, and stop events
       which will determine if a given instance was  shutdown  by  the  user  or  Ganeti,  and  this  result  is
       communicated to Ganeti via a special file in the filesystem.

FILES

       The  KVM  daemon  monitors  Qmp sockets of KVM instances, which are created in the KVM control directory,
       located under @LOCALSTATEDIR@/run/ganeti/kvm-hypervisor/ctrl/.  The  KVM  daemon  also  creates  shutdown
       files    in    this    directory.     Finally,   the   KVM   daemon's   log   file   is   located   under
       @LOCALSTATEDIR@/log/ganeti/ganeti-kvmd.log.  Removal of the KVM control directory, the shutdown files, or
       the log file, will lead to no errors on the KVM daemon.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report  bugs  to  the  project's  issue  tracker (https://github.com/ganeti/ganeti/issues) or contact the
       developers using the Ganeti mailing list.

SEE ALSO

       Ganeti overview and  specifications:  ganeti(7)  (general  overview),  ganeti-os-interface(7)  (guest  OS
       definitions), ganeti-extstorage-interface(7) (external storage providers).

       Ganeti  commands:  gnt-cluster(8) (cluster-wide commands), gnt-job(8) (job-related commands), gnt-node(8)
       (node-related commands),  gnt-instance(8)  (instance  commands),  gnt-os(8)  (guest  OS  commands),  gnt-
       storage(8)  (storage commands), gnt-group(8) (node group commands), gnt-backup(8) (instance import/export
       commands), gnt-debug(8) (debug commands).

       Ganeti daemons: ganeti-watcher(8) (automatic instance restarter), ganeti-cleaner(8) (job queue  cleaner),
       ganeti-noded(8) (node daemon), ganeti-rapi(8) (remote API daemon).

       Ganeti  htools: htools(1) (generic binary), hbal(1) (cluster balancer), hspace(1) (capacity calculation),
       hail(1) (IAllocator plugin), hscan(1) (data gatherer from remote clusters), hinfo(1) (cluster information
       printer), mon-collector(7) (data collectors interface).

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