On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:54 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > This is a cool idea, but there are two issues with this patch. The > first is that it's 500 lines of code: that's around +10% on lguest's > total code size! The second is that it conflicts with the medium-term > plan to allow any user to run up lguests: this is why lg.ko never > printk()s about problems with the guest. Not much I can do about the size, but it's in the debug section so hopefully it's not considered too bad :) > > While it is useful for cases where a guest dies mysteriously before it > brings up the console, three alternatives come to mind: > > 1) Modify early_printk so Guests can use it. > 2) Have a separate tool(-set?) for this kind of post-mortem. Then you > just have to implement guest suspend! 8) > 3) Put this in a CONFIG_LGUEST_DEBUG. > > Note that options 1 or 2 make you do more work, but are probably better > in the long term. I'm happy for #3 to sit as a patch in the tree for > the duration, tho! OK, I'll make a #3 patch to send, but the #1 looks best. Not to mention that I still need to make it so that the console can read it. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
