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From: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] MIPS: paravirt: Provide _machine_halt function to exit VM on shutdown of guest
Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 00:18:26 +0100
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On Thursday 29 May 2014 00:04:18 Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 02:44:49PM +0100, James Hogan wrote:
> > On 20/05/14 15:47, Andreas Herrmann wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com>
> > 
> > Does it make sense to provide a _machine_restart too?
> 
> Hmm, I've not seen a real need for this so far.
> (Halting the guest and relaunching it from the shell with lkvm was fast
> enough for my tests ;-)
> 
> But it's worth to get it working. I might be wrong but I think that
> this requires lkvm changes to actually handle the reboot.

Fair enough. No point implementing something that can't be used/tested yet. If 
QEMU gets support for paravirt, it can be done then.

Cheers
James