-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Il 31/10/2013 15:32, Eric Blake ha scritto: > On 10/31/2013 08:30 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:39:03AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I know it's been a long time since this thread. But qemu 1.7 is >>> releasing, do you have any consensus on this? >> >> I think the biggest issue is the new PANICKED state. Guests >> already have simple ways to halt the CPU, and actually do. I >> think a new state was a mistake. So how about the following? >> Does it break anything? (Untested). > > Don't you still need to halt the guest on a panic event, for > management to have a chance to choose what to do about the panic? > I'm suspecting this patch does break things. Yes, it does. But I think that, once we make the pvpanic device is optional, to a large extent there is no bug. Adding the pvpanic device to the VM will make libvirt obey <oncrash> instead of the in-guest setting, and that's it. Two months have passed and no casualties have been reported due to pvpanic. Let's just remove the auto-pvpanic from all machine types in 1.7 (yes, that's backwards incompatible in a strict sense), document it in the release notes, and hope that the old QEMU versions with mandatory pvpanic die of old age. All the advantages/disadvantages from my original messages still apply. Let's ignore the disadvantages and just KISS. Paolo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJScmuVAAoJEBvWZb6bTYbyS6MP/Rb9japkUmjKy+bUW2Bf5vHD hOrCL/20LC17OdIdzOngjfcY6OyPrtZ6dtjzvSjsWoxjW+QNuTwLM5h+0kOmvlM/ UCqX9MZiKFysVphnwIFy2fzTKmAVw5WqUlS17XMsiKxpvCquy5Fss5PWB3k3orMD kRCoTTmQDID95T38OqezvzDaRjNvoHXOTuWFOhbzWt2OFUwg1WDy1GLKV/pSx0/o GS2/RYo5iQkEtZk0muj0fmWEZX1K2nfaYmVQh39LJhFrWQLabHskYz1+n/OTmwQT 3DiUkfeqrxLahlyHbIOguLjLY8gH2fZa0gzHEB7D0b1aiuqQmsxM3ELdl8pJJzex 1ZGKt9X1u58v/SvfDHW14uCMAiv8jgQDnDOa6pgi7DezBQym+90+RnzC2Z5BcHIp hsPEB0Bc47REPu69GOSj7XQ1uan5yQS38jSv8D11nJEW8VfXiV4smOZhivrEOicR mdYYV6BNc985vcVOmvmkTJ5VkUOKeMzMDAJkSDqN6P0fQKTOJpCtJag3TcjHVRB4 ORXUrdO9NuICGjwB75T86INkxEsXFaw1aHIKpcxMk2PN6u/Zc+n7GXf65ReGorbL 2QUrepzUUt+mTYXJha9h7gEudRnixe5zK8AgqtSHAJPKP++LrFz4lrmzCHC6e3V1 6K2AhZl4EjBJaf6AMy70 =GBBt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list