From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:59:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A54A64E.7080101@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090708135607.GO26640@redhat.com>
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> That suffers from the same problem as a system_reboot command in that
> the guest may never start the shutdown. If that's an acceptable
> limitation, then we might as well implement it directly in QEMU as
> system_reboot so its easily available to everyone. Make 'system_reboot'
> take an optional timeout arg (default to 60 seconds) after which it
> cancels its plans.
>
That's a heuristic and we tend to avoid implementing heuristics in
QEMU. It's really the role of a management tool to make policy decisions.
--
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-08 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-07 19:26 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot Ryan Harper
2009-07-08 5:06 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 13:07 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 13:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 13:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 13:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 7:56 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 13:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 13:26 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-07-08 13:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 13:56 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-07-08 13:59 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-07-08 15:43 ` Ryan Harper
2009-07-08 15:49 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 15:58 ` Ryan Harper
2009-07-08 16:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-08 16:02 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-16 8:58 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-16 14:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-16 14:49 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-08 13:49 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-08 14:04 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 14:10 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-07-08 15:16 ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-08 15:47 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-07-08 15:54 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-07-08 15:59 ` Stefano Stabellini
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