Virtual machines don't start if no qourum

[giner]

Three Proxmox VE 2.2 servers in a cluster. If I start first server and wait some time it starts but no VMs started. As I understood from https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332 this is a feature and not a bug. But VMs of that first server still don't start when I start the rest of servers. And finally I have three servers with VMs started on only two of them:

• Server1: VMs not started
• Server2: VMs started
• Server3: VMs started

How to change this behavior so as not to start some machines manually after servers up.

 

[dietmar]

How to change this behavior so as not to start some machines manually after servers up.

You can try to start all three servers at the same time.

 

[giner]

> You can try to start all three servers at the same time.
Sometimes this is not an option.
What about implementing something similar to 'wfc-timeout' in DRBD config, let's say quorum timeout, and it would work in the following way:
it waits for quorum for NN seconds during boot process and asks for options at the same time:
- press N to boot without quorum (read only), this is a default option after timeout
- press S to boot without quorum (read only) and start pve-manager
NN can be 0, that means it should wait until manual interaction.

 

[dietmar]

it waits for quorum for NN seconds during boot process and asks for options at the same time:

This is already implemented - see /etc/init.d/cman for details

# CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT -- amount of time to wait for a quorate cluster on
#     startup quorum is needed by many other applications, so we may as
#     well wait here.  If CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT is zero, quorum will
#     be ignored.
[ -z "$CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT" ] && CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT=45

 

[giner]

This is already implemented - see /etc/init.d/cman for details

# CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT -- amount of time to wait for a quorate cluster on
#     startup quorum is needed by many other applications, so we may as
#     well wait here.  If CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT is zero, quorum will
#     be ignored.
[ -z "$CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT" ] && CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT=45

I can't remember user interaction.
Problem is that if I set CMAN_QUORUM_TIMEOUT, for example, 600 seconds I can't force it not to wait interactively.