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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:31:18 +0300
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Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 08:15 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Markus Armbruster<armbru@redhat.co=
m>
>> =C2=A0wrote:
>> > =C2=A0Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> =C2=A0writes:
>> >
>> >> =C2=A0On 04/08/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> =C2=A0And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the on=
ly API to
>> >>> =C2=A0do something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is=
 not the
>> >>> =C2=A0friendliest thing in the world to do to users.
>> >>
>> >> =C2=A0nmi is a fine name for something that corresponds to a real=
-life nmi
>> >> =C2=A0button (often labeled "NMI").
>> >
>> > =C2=A0Agree.
>>
>> We could also introduce an alias mechanism for user friendly names, =
so
>> nmi could be used in addition of full path. Aliases could be useful
>> for device paths as well.
>
> Yes. =C2=A0Perhaps limited to the human monitor.

I'd limit all debugging commands (including NMI) to the human monitor.