Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 5] xl shutdown compatibility with xm

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 11:32 +0100, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
> Hi Ian,
> 
> Great thanks !
> Only thing i was wondering about:
> 
> Shouldn't the "-F" option be dropped in favour of always trying the
> "acpi fallback" when the pv shutdown fails.
> 
> This because the shutdown scripts still don't work for domains without
> pv shutdown and i don't see a down side to just trying that as
> fallback.

It is guess OS dependent what the ACPI button press event does, it can
reboot, shutdown or hibernate etc depending on the OS type and its
configuration. (in theory I suppose it is completely arbitrary e.g. it
could be configured to eject the CD-ROM or something equally random).

Therefore the user needs to be aware of when they can safely use it.

Ian.



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