[CentOS-virt] reboot guest on panic

Sun Mar 14 04:21:14 UTC 2010
Christopher G. Stach II <cgs at ldsys.net>

----- "Norman Gaywood" <ngaywood at une.edu.au> wrote:

> I have a guest that keeps crashing and want to automatically reboot
> it when it crashes. See:
> 
>   xen PV guest kernel 2.6.32 processes lock up in D state
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724
> 
> if you want to look at the details on the crashing.

If your guest's state is corrupted, you can't rely on its behavior. For that reason, you should set up a watchdog and only rely on the panic behavior as a preliminary measure.

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Christopher G. Stach II
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