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 07:36:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C859DF0E.1996D%keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AEC6C66638C05B468B556EA548C1A77D01A0A4F7@trantor>
On 07/07/2010 07:29, "James Harper" <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> That would certainly be much easier in terms of programming effort, and
> fulfils most of my concerns.
>
> What criteria does xend use to determine if a domain is in a reboot
> loop? Is it just a single restart within some number of seconds, or is
> it a certain number of reboots in a certain number of seconds?
I think it's a single restart within 60 seconds that triggers it. That's how
the code reads anyway.
-- Keir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 6:36 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
2010-07-07 6:29 ` James Harper
2010-07-07 6:36 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
2010-07-07 9:49 ` Tim Deegan
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