Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xenlinux i386: don't force a reboot on panics

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 22 Aug 2005, at 09:16, Jan Beulich wrote:

> This is supposed to be configurable (eg on the command line), not
> hard-coded (also, x86_64 didn't try to do similar things).
What is? panic_timeout?

Seems sensible on a VMM to inform control software as quickly as 
possible that you've crashed, rather than spinning in a loop trying to 
blink a keyboard led that doesn't exist.
Even the concept of a timeout before restart makes little sense -- the 
console output has been sent to an external daemon so it shouldn't get 
lost like it would if it was printed to vga console and you did a real 
physical reboot.
 -- Keir


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