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

[Blue Swirl]

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 04/11/2011 08:15 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yes.  Perhaps limited to the human monitor.

I'd limit all debugging commands (including NMI) to the human monitor.