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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rombios: pause for a keypress after a
	failedboot
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 07:36:46 +0100
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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