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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: pkrempa@redhat.com, marcel.a@redhat.com, libvir-list@redhat.com,
	lersek@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	armbru@redhat.com, rhod@redhat.com, kraxel@redhat.com,
	anthony@codemonkey.ws, hutao@cn.fujitsu.com,
	lcapitulino@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Start fixing the pvpanic mess
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:51:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5214EFFF.3060804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130821164817.GC10012@redhat.com>

Il 21/08/2013 18:48, Daniel P. Berrange ha scritto:
> No, <on_crash> is the right thing to be using for this from
> libvirt's pov & I don't think we should invent something new.
> The <on_crash> element has always been intended to represent
> handling of guest panics, not qemu internal errors.

Actually for Xen HVM guests, it mostly traps things such as failed
vmentries.  The Xen PV-on-HVM drivers do not register a panic notifier
that moves the guest to the "crashed" state.

<on_crash> cannot be salvaged, in my opinion, because all domain XMLs in
the wild will have a setting that causes libvirt to add "-device
isa-pvpanic".  Thus changing libvirt versions will change guest
hardware, which is _very_ bad.

In addition, Windows XP and 2003 will show the annoying device wizard
upon a libvirt upgrade, and fixing this is what surfaced all the mess.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-21 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-21 16:43 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Start fixing the pvpanic mess Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 16:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] vl: allow "cont" from panicked state Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 16:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pc: get rid of builtin pvpanic Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:03   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 17:02     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:07       ` Andreas Färber
2013-08-21 17:04     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 17:33   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 16:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] pvpanic: rename to isa-pvpanic Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:01   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 17:01     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:07       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 17:06         ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:31           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-22 12:43           ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-08-22 12:41             ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-25 10:44               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-22 16:50             ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-25 10:29               ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 17:35     ` Andreas Färber
2013-08-21 17:46       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Start fixing the pvpanic mess Daniel P. Berrange
2013-08-21 16:51   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-21 16:55     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-08-21 16:56       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:10         ` Eric Blake
2013-08-21 17:11           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-22  9:17         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-08-21 17:02     ` Eric Blake
2013-08-21 17:10       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-21 17:26       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-08-21 17:30         ` Paolo Bonzini

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