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Re: Halt vs. Reboot: it matters which domain?



Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> Thinking about this a bit more, I think I should put back the old RB_HALT
> behaviour for domain 0.  If you "halt" domain 0 instead of "reboot"ing
> it, you probably do not want the machine to come back up right away.


Personally, I think DOM0 should act as if it was a standard i386: halt (or
poweroff) to shut the machine down, reboot to do a reset.
It's least surprise, at least for me.

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