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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:05:20 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot
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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:26:31PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote:
>   
>> Add a new monitor command (system_reboot) for a soft reboot which uses
>> system_powerdown to trigger ACPI shutdown in the guest and once shutdown
>> is complete, trigger a reset instead of exiting qemu.
>>
>> Depends on commit a6d6552426dcbf726e5549f08b70c9318d6be14b which enabled
>> ACPI power button support.
>>
>> V2:
>>     -added reset handler to lower the reboot flag on reset.
>>     
> OS is free to ignore ACPI shutdown request and in this case
> reboot_requested will not be reset. On the next user initiated
> guest power down qemu will reboot instead of exit.
>   

Indeed.  This is what has kept me from applying this but I just can't 
think of any better solution.

Any ideas?

The drive behind implementing this feature is so that we can implement a 
proper virDomainReboot in libvirt.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori