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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/16] xenpaging: reduce MINIMUM_RESTART_TIME

Hi :)

Le 3 nov. 2010 à 17:55, Ian Jackson a écrit :

> Olaf Hering writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/16] xenpaging: reduce 
> MINIMUM_RESTART_TIME"):
>> Too bad, this variable is only a bandaid because it doesnt know any
>> context of the guest. And it cant know any context. When is a guest in a
>> good or bad state? Should it panic, or crash? Its not easy to detect
>> a bad condition.
> 
> Absolutely.  Also some guests may reboot rapidly the first time (or
> two) eg due to fsck, and thereafter be fine.  It ought to be more
> sophisticated.

Or even more, this is needed for example for Windows to register theirselves to 
KMS. Sometimes I need to add a sleep() to avoid this going into action.

>> A better change would be to allow an override in the guest config file.
> 
> Yes :-).


I'd really like this too :)

Cheers,
Xavier

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