Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8] kvm: notify host when the guest is panicked

From: Peter Maydell
Date: Tue Aug 14 2012 - 15:58:54 EST


On 14 August 2012 19:53, Anthony Liguori <anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Forget about !x86 platforms. They have their own way to do this sort of
> thing. Think of this feature like a status LED on a motherboard. These
> are very common and usually controlled by IO ports.

Please don't forget !x86 platforms, we are cute and loveable really :-)

> We're simply reserving a "status LED" for the guest to indicate that it
> has paniced. Let's not over engineer this.

...not that QEMU actually has any kind of "front panel lights and switches"
interface at all, it might be nice to have one. I bet a lot of the embedded
boards have function DIP switches, heartbeat LEDs, etc etc...

-- PMM
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