Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu, qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command

[Blue Swirl]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Avi Kivity <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 04/08/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>> And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the only API to
>>> do something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is not the
>>> friendliest thing in the world to do to users.
>>
>> nmi is a fine name for something that corresponds to a real-life nmi
>> button (often labeled "NMI").
>
> Agree.

We could also introduce an alias mechanism for user friendly names, so
nmi could be used in addition of full path. Aliases could be useful
for device paths as well.