> added domain termination handling on shutdown. Currently,
> DomU just exits after shutdown (also on reboot, as i don't see a way to do
a
> real reboot of DomU), and on shutdown of Dom0, Xen reboots the machine. Is
> there any hook known to do some way of halt instead of reboot here? At
least,
> with this patch, no domain loops eating up the CPU on shutdown.

Please have a look at how this is done in the xen 2.0 port.  Not sure,
if/how you can control reboot/halt behaviour in xen 1.2.
Removing code like you suggest is a bad idea because you will want this code
back if you're running as dom0 on xen 2.0.

     christian