Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked

[Avi Kivity]

On 03/15/2012 01:25 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>
> > There was such vm exit (KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL), but it was deemed to be a
> > bad idea.
>
> BTW, this would help a lot in emulating hypercalls of other hypervisors
> (or of KVM's VAPIC in the absence of in-kernel irqchip - I had to jump
> through hoops therefore) in user space. Not all those hypercall handlers
> actually have to reside in the KVM module.
>

That is true.  On the other hand the hypercall ABI might go to pieces if
there was no central implementation.

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