From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfTfD-0003L4-AW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:50:15 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EfTfB-0003Ks-RV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:50:15 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EfTfB-0003Kp-PA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:50:13 -0500 Received: from [128.8.10.163] (helo=po1.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EfTfB-0003TR-W1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 21:50:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:19:17 -0500 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Buglet - close window warning Message-ID: <20051124011917.GA4649@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <4385D2D9.5060600@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4385D2D9.5060600@hermes.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Richard Neill Cc: qemu-devel 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.