On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:42:32AM +0800, Hu Tao wrote: > We can know the guest is panicked 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 panicked. If management > app does not do auto dump, the guest's user can do dump by hand if > he sees the guest is panicked. > > We have three solutions to implement this feature: > 1. use vmcall > 2. use I/O port > 3. use virtio-serial. > > We have decided to avoid touching hypervisor. The reason why I choose > choose the I/O port is: > 1. it is easier to implememt > 2. it does not depend any virtual device > 3. it can work when starting the kernel It has been asked earlier why a simple virtio device is not usable for this (with no response IIRC). Also, there is no high level documentation: purpose of the interface, how a management application should use it, etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
