Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot

[Anthony Liguori]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> That suffers from the same problem as a system_reboot command in that
> the guest may never start the shutdown. If that's an acceptable 
> limitation, then we might as well implement it directly in QEMU as
> system_reboot so its easily available to everyone. Make 'system_reboot'
> take an optional timeout arg (default to 60 seconds) after which it
> cancels its plans. 
>   

That's a heuristic and we tend to avoid implementing heuristics in 
QEMU.  It's really the role of a management tool to make policy decisions.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori