From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [PATCH] rombios: pause for a keypress after a failedboot Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 07:26:47 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper , Tim Deegan , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 07/07/2010 02:43, "James Harper" 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