Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot

[Anthony Liguori]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:26:31PM -0500, Ryan Harper wrote:
>   
> > Add a new monitor command (system_reboot) for a soft reboot which uses
> > system_powerdown to trigger ACPI shutdown in the guest and once shutdown
> > is complete, trigger a reset instead of exiting qemu.
> >
> > Depends on commit a6d6552426dcbf726e5549f08b70c9318d6be14b which enabled
> > ACPI power button support.
> >
> > V2:
> >     -added reset handler to lower the reboot flag on reset.
> >     
> OS is free to ignore ACPI shutdown request and in this case
> reboot_requested will not be reset. On the next user initiated
> guest power down qemu will reboot instead of exit.
>   

Indeed.  This is what has kept me from applying this but I just can't 
think of any better solution.

Any ideas?

The drive behind implementing this feature is so that we can implement a 
proper virDomainReboot in libvirt.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori