Xen Server 6.x

XEN SERVER 6.x

Auto Start VM

In XenServer 6.x, the auto-start functionality was removed because it interfered with High Availability (HA) and produced unexpected results during HA functions.

Instructions
Setting the XenServer to allow Auto-Start

Gather the UUIDs of the pools you wish to auto-start.

To get the list of the pools on your XenServer, run “xe pool-list”

Copy the UUID of the pool. If you have just one server, it will still have a pool UUID as noted in the following

Then type the following command to set the pool or server to allow auto-start:
xe pool-param-set uuid=UUID other-config:auto_poweron=true
Note: Replacing UUID with the UUID of the XenServer or pool.

Setting the Virtual Machines to Auto-Start

Gather the UUIDs of the Virtual Machine you want to auto-start by running xe vm-list.
Note: This generates a list of Virtual Machines in your pool or server and their associated UUIDs.

Copy the UUID of the Virtual Machines you want to auto-start, and run the following command for each Virtual Machine to auto-start:
xe vm-param-set uuid=UUID other-config:auto_poweron=true
Note: Replace UUID with the UUID of the Virtual Machine to auto-start. obtained in step 1