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From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:02:51 +0300
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On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:34:57PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >The only two things which came to my mind are:
> >
> >  * NMI (aka. ipmitool diag) - already available in qemu/kvm - but requires
> >    in-guest kexec/kdump
> >  * Hardware-Watchdog (also available in qemu/libvirt)
> 
> A watchdog has the advantage that is also detects lockups.
> 
And has disadvantage that all time base heuristics are bite us in the
end.

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			Gleb.