From: "Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>
To: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Buglet - close window warning
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:19:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051124011917.GA4649@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4385D2D9.5060600@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:48:57PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> There's a buglet in qemu in that, if you close the window, it will just
> exit. It would be really useful if it warned you not to do this, but to
> shut down the virtual machine first. Like most applications do to
> prevent dataloss without saving first.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
>
This is known, and easy to fix. Just no one has bothered I think.
There was an on-quit patch a while ago, that let you specify the behavior
you wanted when quiting (including the ability to run a custom script that would
tell the guest OS to shut itself down) but that was never committed.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
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2005-11-24 14:48 [Qemu-devel] Buglet - close window warning Richard Neill
2005-11-24 1:19 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
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