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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:39:58 -0500
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Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <eag0628@gmail.com>,
	Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
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	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
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On 04/07/2011 01:51 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> NMI does not have to generate crash dump on every guest we support.
> Actually even for windows guest it does not generate one without
> tweaking registry. For all I know there is a guest that checks mail when
> NMI arrives.

And for all we know, a guest can respond to an ACPI poweroff event by 
tweeting the star spangled banner but we still call the corresponding 
QMP command system_poweroff.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori