Il 21/08/2013 16:30, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
I think the same reasoning went behind the PANICKED state, and for most cases it's going to be disastrous to put the guest to run again,
Why will it? It will most likely just call halt a bit later.
I agree.
but I can understand that this is up user/mngt to decide this, not QEMU.
I don't have a problem with this patch as such, so
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
though I'm still not really sure why do we want to block guest immediately on panic. Why not let it call halt a bit later?
To make sure the panic is detected, and action taken, in the host even if management has crashed at the time. For example, even if you have reboot-on-panic active, management has time to take a core dump of the paused guest _before_ the reboot. Paolo