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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

  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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