[PVE-User] Proxmox VE 2.1 released!

[Robert Fantini]

On 04/27/2012 05:48 AM, Martin Maurer wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> We just released Proxmox VE 2.1, including a lot of bug fixes the new Virtual Machine Startup and Shutdown Behavior.
> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Virtual_Machine_Startup_and_Shutdown_Behavior
>
> A big Thank-you to our active community for all feedback, testing, bug reporting and patch submissions.
>
> Release notes
>
> - simplify GUI for users without permissions
> - implemented startup/shutdown ordering
> - improved task logs on node startup/shutdown
> - added Russian, Italian and Turkish translation
> - updated corosync cluster stack to 1.4.3
> - update LVM to 2.02.95 (fixes snapshot problems)
> - bug fixes
>
> Download
> http://www.proxmox.com/downloads/proxmox-ve/17-iso-images
>
> Upgrade from 2.0
> Just run 'aptitude update&&  aptitude full-upgrade'
>
> Upgrade from 1.9 to 2.1
> http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_1.9_to_2.0
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Martin Maurer
>
> martin at proxmox.com
> http://www.proxmox.com
>
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what is the purpose of 'Shutdown timeout' ?

I read  `man qm ` :
-timeout   integer (0 - N)

                     Wait maximal timeout seconds.


but am still unclear as to what that timeout does.