Re: KVM call minutes for 2013-08-06

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:47:36PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 05:15 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >* pvpanic
> >- was added by default in 1.5, this might have been too rash:
> >	- might change guest behaviour if guest is set to reboot on panic
> 
> Interesting, but it looks like either a feature or a driver bug.
> 
More like the device bug. The behaviour should be to notify management
without stopping the VM. Management (if present and configured for do
so) stops the VM.

> >	- might cause slightly annoying warnings/queries from device
> >	  manager
> >	- generally somewhat inelegant/non-symmetrical, libvirt
> >	  developers prefer "no magic devices"
> >- conclusions:
> >	- for -M 1.6, will change QEMU don't add by default, teach libvirt to add
> >	  with -device pvpanic
> 
> This just moves the problem to a layer where it's harder to fix it.
> It will just appear to work because no one will use pvpanic, which
> is not a solution.
> 
> Paolo
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			Gleb.