On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:09:11PM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > On shutdown, we ask xend to shutdown all running domains and wait for > > this > > to complete (timing out after 6 minutes if no further progress is being > > made). > > where did "6 minutes" come from? existing practice in the open-source > hypervisor code?
After 5 minutes, xend will log a message that the domain is unresponsive and mark it as such in the domain store. Previous/other versions of Xen would kill the domain at the 5-minute mark. So the 6 minutes is previous behaviour plus a little bit of slop. > > As a result, we feel that the > > interfaces described here are best represented by a classification of > > Volatile: > > I'd think the interface that needs to be stable is the one for marking > domains as autoboot This interface comes from upstream and is thus subject to the same rules as described in the umbrella Xen case. regards john
