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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: domain pause vs. watchdog timer
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:38:44 +0200
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On 10/13/11 16:21, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 13.10.11 at 15:41, Laszlo Ersek<lersek@redhat.com>  wrote:
>> if a domain is paused (= not scheduled), its process that keeps
>> otherwise kicking /dev/watchdog and (thusly the hypervisor) "freezes"
>> too. Should pausing a domain suspend (or "inactivate") its watchdog_timers?
>
> I would say yes it should. And you say it doesn't?

I must have missed a changeset (or a hunk?) related to pausing:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742880#c1

I backported 21529 from xen-unstable to the RHEL-5 hypervisor version, 
and Igor tested pausing a Fedora 16 HVM guest. The domU was destroyed 
while it was paused.

Thanks!
L.