xen discuss - Feb 2008 - In Pause state it accepts shutdown command, on unpause it will shutdown the machine

Hi,

I have Dom0 with snv_81 and DomU centos5 paravirt. I issued pause
command to centos5 and then issued shutdown command, After that i tried
resume (unpause) the centos5 it started shutting down the machine.

Is their any way to see pending commands/request in xen queue ?

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Thanks
Ajeesh

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:31:38PM +0530, Ajeeshrao.r wrote:
> I have Dom0 with snv_81 and DomU centos5 paravirt. I issued pause
> command to centos5 and then issued shutdown command, After that i tried
> resume (unpause) the centos5 it started shutting down the machine.
> 
> Is their any way to see pending commands/request in xen queue ?
There''s not really a queue: the shutdown is asynchronous. When the
domain is unpaused, it notices (via xenstore) that it''s been asked to
shutdown and does so.

I think you really wanted :

xm shutdown -w

to wait for the shutdown to finish (and you would have noticed it never
did, as the domain was paused).

In general, there''s little reason to pause a domain though

regards
john