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

[Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:26 +0100 on 07 Jul (1278487607), Keir Fraser wrote:
> > 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?

That's easy enough.  The attached patch makes it wait 30 seconds before
shutting down instead.  (It applies on top of my original patch).

Signed-off-by: Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tim.

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Tim Deegan <Tim.Deegan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Principal Software Engineer, XenServer Engineering
Citrix Systems UK Ltd.  (Company #02937203, SL9 0BG)

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