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mitchellh / vagrant-rackspace

Use Vagrant to manage Rackspace Cloud instances.
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vagrant halt does not work. #25

Open maishsk opened 11 years ago

maishsk commented 11 years ago

When running vagrant halt the following is displayed

C:\VM\rackspace>vagrant halt Vagrant attempted to call the action 'halt' on the provider 'RackSpace Cloud', but this provider doesn't support this action. This is probably a bug in either the provider or the plugin calling this action, and should be reported.

wroscoe commented 11 years ago

yep same problem, did you find resolution?

wroscoe commented 11 years ago

vagrant destroy will stop the rackspace server

krames commented 11 years ago

@maishsk Sorry about the delay in the reply!

I don't know how feasible implementing halt is. You can't just stop a VM and then resume it's execution later. The close thing we could do is, take an image of that VM and then delete it. This unfortunately would be slow and it wouldn't retain the IP either.

@deanmalmgren suggested adding a better help message to indicate this. I will have to add it to the list!

deanmalmgren commented 11 years ago

It appears that there isn't an equivalent way to halt a Rackspace server at this time [upvote feature request here]. I would suggest having a more user-friendly error message, perhaps something like

The 'halt' action does not work with the Rackspace API at this time. Upvote the feature request if this is something you want http://bit.ly/H5xND1. In the meantime, the 'destroy' action can be used to stop and permanently remove the Rackspace server.

Edit at will. It just seems like it would be better to alert the user that it is a Rackspace issue, not a vagrant-rackspace issue and provide a workaround in the interim. Thoughts @krames?

I'd implement this myself but I can't seem to figure out how to do it (vagrant/ruby n00b).

krames commented 11 years ago

@deanmalmgren seems reasonable to me. Let me see if I can't squeeze it in next week.