Re: [Qemu-devel] QMP: RFC: I/O error info & query-stop-reason

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 06/03/2011 08:41 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-06-03 15:26, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> I think what we're getting at is the need for an enumeration.  So let's
>> introduce one.  Here's what I propose:
>>
>> SQMP
>> query-status
>> ------------
>>
>> Return a json-object with the following information:
>>
>> - "running": true if the VM is running, or false if it is paused
>> (json-bool)
>> - "singlestep": true if the VM is in single step mode,
>>                  false otherwise (json-bool)
>> - "status": one of the following values (json-string) (optional)
>>        "prelaunch" - QEMU was started with -S and guest has not started
>>        "running" - guest is actively running
>>        "singlestep" - guest is running in single step mode
>
> "singlestep" is just a subset of "debug" stops. Better use the latter.
>
>>        "paused" - guest has been paused via the 'stop' command
>>        "postmigrate" - guest is paused following a successful 'migrate'
>>        "shutdown" - guest is shut down (and -no-shutdown is in use)
>>        "io-error" - the last IOP has failed and the device is configured
>> to pause on I/O errors
>>        "watchdog-error" - the watchdog action is configured to pause and
>> has been triggered
>
> And "panic" or "internal-error".

Can you add the request help spec text too?  Is "internal-error" a KVM 
emulation error?  If so, I'd rather make it "kvm-emulation-error".

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Jan
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