From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53799) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6kdE-0003tM-W1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:01:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6kd7-0000xD-NC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:01:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55307) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V6kd7-0000wj-FS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:01:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2013 20:01:01 +0300 From: Gleb Natapov Message-ID: <20130806170101.GE15901@redhat.com> References: <878v0ehmun.fsf@elfo.elfo> <52011A98.6090104@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52011A98.6090104@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for 2013-08-06 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: qemu-devel qemu-devel , KVM devel mailing list , quintela@redhat.com On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 05:47:36PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/06/2013 05:15 PM, Juan Quintela wrote: > >* pvpanic > >- was added by default in 1.5, this might have been too rash: > > - might change guest behaviour if guest is set to reboot on panic > > Interesting, but it looks like either a feature or a driver bug. > More like the device bug. The behaviour should be to notify management without stopping the VM. Management (if present and configured for do so) stops the VM. > > - might cause slightly annoying warnings/queries from device > > manager > > - generally somewhat inelegant/non-symmetrical, libvirt > > developers prefer "no magic devices" > >- conclusions: > > - for -M 1.6, will change QEMU don't add by default, teach libvirt to add > > with -device pvpanic > > This just moves the problem to a layer where it's harder to fix it. > It will just appear to work because no one will use pvpanic, which > is not a solution. > > Paolo > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Gleb.