Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> In install_VM you show a loop that monitors state with regard to the >> VM. If the VM is hung, what can we do here in terms of shutting down >> the VM? >> > > This is where the vm_timeout comes in. When the timeout expires, we'll > forcibly shut down the vm and tell the user that vm creation failed. > Though why it failed is going to be tricky to explain. >
So is this more like an overall "time limit" for the vm to finish? 'timeout' to me has a connotation that something is being measured from a point when no progress appears to be made -- like a sleeping process or something. Is it possible to come up with some heuristic, or state to measure from, for this timeout? thanks, -ethan
