Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Introduce vm_stop_permanent()

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 07/28/2011 12:44 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Luiz Capitulino<lcapitulino@redhat.com>  wrote:
> >  This function should be used when the VM is not supposed to resume
> >  execution (eg. by issuing 'cont' monitor command).
> >
> >  Today, we allow the user to resume execution even when:
> >
> >    o the guest shuts down and -no-shutdown is used
> >    o there's a kvm internal error
> >    o loading the VM state with -loadvm or "loadvm" in the monitor fails
> >
> >  I think only badness can happen from the cases above.
>
> I'd suppose a system_reset should bring the system back to sanity and
> then clear vm_permanent_stopped (where's -ly?) except maybe for KVM
> internal error if that can't be recovered. Then it would not very
> permanent anymore, so the name would need adjusting.

Currently, all kvm internal errors are recoverable by reset (and 
possibly by fiddling with memory/registers).

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