[PATCH 6/6] docs: document panic device 'pvpanic-pci'

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Thu Feb 9 17:32:12 UTC 2023


On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 08:41:01 -0800, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 01:09:05PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 12:49:05 +0100, Kristina Hanicova wrote:
> > > +++ b/docs/formatdomain.rst
> > > @@ -7940,6 +7940,7 @@ Example: usage of panic configuration
> > >     -  'hyperv' - for Hyper-V crash CPU feature. :since:`Since 1.3.0, QEMU and
> > >        KVM only`
> > >     -  's390' - default for S390 guests. :since:`Since 1.3.5`
> > > +   -  'pvpanic' - for PCI pvpanic devicen :since:`Since 9.1.0, QEMU and KVM only`
> >
> > s/devicen/device/
> >
> > Also is KVM really required? I'd expect that it will also work with TCG
> > VMs.
> 
> I think so as well. But to be honest I'm unclear on what "QEMU and
> KVM only", as used extensively throughout the document, is intended
> to mean. Does it mean "only when using the QEMU driver and its KVM
> domain type", or rather "only when using the QEMU or KVM domain
> type"? The latter sounds more likely to me, and it would be accurate
> for the pvpanic-pci device.

Generaly in our docs "QEMU only" means that it works only with the qemu
driver/hypervisor, thus I don't think the interpretation that <domain
type='qemu'> or kvm will work here.


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