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From: Ewan Mellor <ewan@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: xm shutdown --all --wait and zombie domains
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:42:38 +0100
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On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 04:31:08PM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:

> At the moment xm shutdown --all --wait hangs with a zombie domain.
> This means it hangs xend stop on dom0 shutdown.. I see no use for this
> behaviour, it would be better to skip Zombie-Domain-* domains.

I agree.  The waiting code is in xen/xm/shutdown.py, you just need to check
whether the state string returned by the server contains a 'd', and if so,
treat it as dead.  A patch would be appreciated!

Ewan.