Clarify Soft reboot implementation

[Andreas Scheuring]

During the Demo I saw you making a soft reboot, but mentioning, that the partition gets activated and deactivated. But this sound more than a hard reboot [1]

Maybe I misunderstood things, if so just set this to 'invalid'.

[1] http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/cli-reboot-an-instance.html

[Andreas Scheuring (andreas-scheuring)]

The libvirt driver knows only a single method for reboot. The input parameter reboot_type specifies if soft or hard reboot should be made.

In the libvirt case they also do a hard reboot if a soft reboot fails. So triggering soft-reboot might result in a hard reboot... As we're not supporting a soft reboot, we directly do the hard reboot - ok.

Maybe it makes sense to at least add a log.warning statement that a hard reboot was made although a soft reboot was requested?

[Andreas Scheuring (andreas-scheuring)]

And we should state that in the docs!

[Sreeram Vancheeswaran (sreeram-vancheeswaran)]

Yes, I agree and I feel we should provide a log.warning and add this to documentation. I will figure this out