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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 06:43:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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:

No, <on_crash> is the right thing to be using for this from
libvirt's pov & I don't think we should invent something new.
The <on_crash> element has always been intended to represent
handling of guest panics, not qemu internal errors.

Daniel
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