Re: Stupid Newbee Questions...

[Stuart Sheldon <stu@actusa.net>]

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Thanks to both of you for answering my questions. And thank you Avi for
fixing the bug. I did not report it because of some of the conversation
I saw in the mailing list regarding that feature, and thought it might
have been removed.

Thanks again...

Stu


Avi Kivity wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> Stuart Sheldon wrote:
>>> 2) When I started writing the management scripts to start and stop the
>>> guests from the command line, I was using KVM-63 which allowed me to
>>> send a "system_powerdown" to the console, this would send a PWR to the
>>> guest's acpid that would bring the guest down gracefully. This stopped
>>> working in kvm-64 and is still not working in kvm-66. Is there a better
>>> way to do this? How can the host bring down a guest without messing with
>>> it's open programs?
>>>   
>>
>> This is not a question, it's a bug report.  It's a clear regression
>> that needs to be fixed, not worked around.
>>
>> Please send timely reports of such issues when you encounter them.
>>
> 
> This was caused by
> 
> commit 6bb0805aeabd5c6ef5408f57c7da5ca6385dd0f5
> Author: Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>
> Date:   Thu Mar 13 00:11:41 2008 +0200
> 
>    kvm: qemu: fix sci irq set when acpi timer about to wrap
> 
>    The acpi timer should generate sci irq when enabled and
>    when bit 23 of the timer counter toogles.
> 
>    Fixes time reading by the performance counter api of windows guest.
> 
> 
> I'm reverting it for kvm-68.
> 
> 

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