From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
To: James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au>,
Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@eu.citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rombios: pause for a keypress after a failedboot
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 07:26:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C859DCB7.19966%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D01A0A4C2@trantor>
On 07/07/2010 02:43, "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>> rombios: inform the user and pause for a keypress after a failed boot
>> rather than powering off immediately.
>>
>
> That's a great idea for many situations, but not for all. If the DomU
> fails to boot (eg because the drbd backing store is offline or
> something) it would be nice to have the domain exit so that monitoring
> can kick in and alert someone, rather than it just sitting there in a
> running state waiting for user input that might never come.
>
> I know it's probably a heap more work, but could the behaviour be driven
> by a config file setting? Otherwise this new behaviour is going to be a
> regression.
Simply pausign for a few seconds might be nice. Gives enough time for a user
to see what is going on, but doesn't leave an unattended VM hanging around
forever?
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 6:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-06 13:59 [PATCH] rombios: pause for a keypress after a failed boot Tim Deegan
2010-07-07 1:43 ` [PATCH] rombios: pause for a keypress after a failedboot James Harper
2010-07-07 6:26 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-07-07 6:29 ` James Harper
2010-07-07 6:36 ` Keir Fraser
2010-07-07 9:49 ` Tim Deegan
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