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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Lai Jiangshan <eag0628@gmail.com>, Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:31:18 +0300
Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.com>
> >> =A0wrote:
> >> > =A0Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com> =A0writes:
> >> >
> >> >> =A0On 04/08/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> =A0And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the only AP=
I to
> >> >>> =A0do something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is not =
the
> >> >>> =A0friendliest thing in the world to do to users.
> >> >>
> >> >> =A0nmi is a fine name for something that corresponds to a real-life=
 nmi
> >> >> =A0button (often labeled "NMI").
> >> >
> >> > =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. =A0Perhaps limited to the human monitor.
>=20
> I'd limit all debugging commands (including NMI) to the human monitor.

Why?