Re: how to cleanly exit a QEMU session?

[Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com>]

On 11-11-30 05:31 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On 30/11/11 03:46, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday 29 November 2011 18:00:31 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>>    i'm sure it's in one of the docs i missed, but how does one cleanly
>>>> shut down a QEMU session and get back to the original terminal
>>>> session?  i've tried shutdown and poweroff but neither of those gives
>>>> me my shell prompt back.
>>>
>>> Which machine are you running within the emulator? I know some emulated
>>> machines don't seem to support actually powering off - does reboot work?
>>
>>    qemuppc, core-image-minimal.  interestingly, "poweroff" doesn't
>> completely close the QEMU session, but "reboot" does.  it might be
>> worth adding that to the quick start guide.
>
> The same is also true for qemuarm, we work around it in sato by munging
> the shutdown.desktop file to all restart and having the qemu scripts
> start qemu with -norestart.
>
> Clearly we should also do the shutdown.desktop munging for qemuppc
>
> What do people think to the idea of putting something into the image for
> those two specific machines which aliases poweroff to reboot?

I'd be fine with such a change, I pushed for the ARM mapping to
reboot originally, so doing the same here and an alias would make
the command line consistent with the GUI.

Bruce

>
> Joshua