Re: [PATCH 0/2] Introduce panic hypercall

Jan Kiszka
2011-06-20T15:59:28Z

On 2011-06-20 17:45, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> This series does need to introduce a QMP event notification upon
>> crash, so that the crash notification can be propagated to mgmt
>> layers above QEMU.
>
> Yes.

I think the best way to deal with that is to stop the VM on guest panic.
There is already WIP to signal stop reasons via QMP. Maybe we need to
differentiate between hypervisor and guest triggered panics
(VMSTOP_GUEST_PANIC?), but the rest should come for free.

Jan

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