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Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:39:58 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Lai Jiangshan <eag0628@gmail.com>, Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>

On 04/07/2011 01:51 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> NMI does not have to generate crash dump on every guest we support.
> Actually even for windows guest it does not generate one without
> tweaking registry. For all I know there is a guest that checks mail when
> NMI arrives.

And for all we know, a guest can respond to an ACPI poweroff event by 
tweeting the star spangled banner but we still call the corresponding 
QMP command system_poweroff.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori