From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5bHj-0001ul-7s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:13:36 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5bHW-0002yY-NA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:13:26 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:49960) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S5bHW-0002xy-FS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:13:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4F58943E.1050402@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:13:02 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4F58664D.1070800@cn.fujitsu.com> In-Reply-To: <4F58664D.1070800@cn.fujitsu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wen Congyang Cc: Gleb Natapov , kvm list , Jan Kiszka , qemu-devel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki On 03/08/2012 09:57 AM, Wen Congyang wrote: > We can know the guest is paniced when the guest runs on xen. > But we do not have such feature on kvm. > > Another purpose of this feature is: management app(for example: > libvirt) can do auto dump when the guest is crashed. If management > app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand if > he sees the guest is paniced. > > I touch the hypervisor instead of using virtio-serial, because > 1. it is simple > 2. the virtio-serial is an optional device, and the guest may > not have such device. > > Changes from v2 to v3: > 1. correct spelling > > Changes from v1 to v2: > 1. split up host and guest-side changes > 2. introduce new request flag to avoid changing return values. I see no Documentation/ changes. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function