Re: [Qemu-devel] Detecting Client OS BSOF/Kernel Oops

[Mark Williamson]

> Clemens Kolbitsch wrote :
> > I'd like to detect if the client OS crashes... right now, only for
> > linux, but windows systems will become interesting for me as well in the
> > future...
>
> Real machines usually have hardware watchdogs for that. I do not know
> if qemu has one available for your target but that's the way I would
> go. Of course, you would have to configure the watchdog driver/daemon
> in the OS, so OS support is important.

Watchdog devices can be pretty simple - probably coming down to just a few IO 
ports.  A QEMU-based watchdog device ought to be fairly easy to implement, 
I'd imagine.  I've been thinking about doing this but haven't got round to 
tackling it yet.

Cheers,
Mark

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