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From: | Richard Neill |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Suggestion - trap window-close of VM |
Date: | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 20:43:56 +0000 |
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Dear All,A thought that occurred to me. If one is running a virtual machine (eg copy of WinXP), then simply closing the qemu window is a really bad idea, since it will effectively crash the guest.
BUT, given that the user expects to be running an *application* rather than an operating system, the natural thing to do is to close the qemu window, rather than remembering to first do a full shutdown of the guest. This is a very easy mistake to make.
I'd suggest that:if ((qemu's window is closed from the GUI) and (the guest has not shut down)); then
qemu should pop up a warning dialog: "Are you sure you want to quit - you should really shut down the guest first, or you may suffer dataloss [yes] [no]" fiIs it possible to know whether the guest has finished shutting down from the CPU state?
Regards Richard
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