Re: [libvirt] [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] Start fixing the pvpanic mess

The pvpanic mess is even bigger than anticipated. Let's fix the monitor's behavior (patch 1), get rid of all traces that the broken pvpanic existed (patch 2), and give it a new name so that libvirt can detect a design that works (patch 3). All downstreams are urged to apply patches 1+2 as soon as they are merged in QEMU. Still, there are still other problems to solve. In QEMU, exposing "-device isa-pvpanic" in the ACPI tables. Quite frankly I don't have the time to fix this. We have ~3 months though. Patch 3 should not be applied until it is fixed. Also, libvirt needs to know under which circumstances to add "-device isa-pvpanic", besides obviously the availability of the device. IMHO it is just too complicated to retrofit all complications in <on_crash>. In fact, I suspect <on_crash> would match more closely QEMU's "internal error" state, and it would be quite useful to add that to the QEMU driver. Thus, libvirt could add support for an <on_panic> element with the following values: