Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] rombios: pause for a keypress after a failedboot

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/07/2010 02:43, "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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



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