Re: [Xen-users] Restarting / shutting down a xen0 server

["Dirk H. Schulz" <dirk.schulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Williamson schrieb:

> > my main xen test system is a pizza box, simply standard.
> >
> > The kernel of stable debian sarge can shut it down/restart it correctly.
> > My own xen kernel (based on debians inofficial xen kernel) cannot.
> >    
> Restart should work, actual poweroff won't work with Xen 2.0.  Don't you want 
> to keep your Xen box up all the time? :-p
>  
Would be boring, wouldn't it? :-)

Can you point me to the kernel option that enables restarting? If it is 
not necessarily connected to APM/ACPI I would like to get it working. 
Would keep me from driving to the colocation center every now and then ...
>  
>
> > Is shutting down (as opposed to writing "power down" to the screen) or
> > restarting based on APM or ACPI and I simply have to forget it with xen
> > (until these features are implemented) or is there something else I can
> > compile into the xen kernel?
> >    
> APM / ACPI poweroff aren't supported under Xen 2.0, however it should work 
> under 3.0 with its enhanced ACPI support (it might even work now with 
> -unstable but that's not really production ready yet).
>  
How unstable is -unstable (*g*)? Is someone using it already 
permanently? How long until 3.0 (the prophetic look into the glass ball 
is sufficient :-) )?
Thanks,

Dirk

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