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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 08:05:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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?

Only other option I think of is a pure paravirt shutdown/reboot
handler, ala Xen. That sucks in different ways though, namely
needing a driver in the guest, which is probably worse.


Daniel
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