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

[Jamie Lokier]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 04:39:58PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 04/07/2011 01:51 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > >NMI does not have to generate crash dump on every guest we support.
> > >Actually even for windows guest it does not generate one without
> > >tweaking registry. For all I know there is a guest that checks mail when
> > >NMI arrives.
> > 
> > And for all we know, a guest can respond to an ACPI poweroff event
> > by tweeting the star spangled banner but we still call the
> > corresponding QMP command system_poweroff.
> > 
> Correct :) But at least system_poweroff implements ACPI poweroff as
> defined by ACPI spec. NMI is not designed as core dump event and is not
> used as such by majority of the guests.

Imho acpi_poweroff or poweroff_button would have been a clearer name.
Or even 'sendkey poweroff' - it's just a button someone on the
keyboard on a lot of systems anyway.  Next to the email button and what
looks, on my laptop, like the play-a-tune button :-)

I put system_poweroff into some QEMU-controlling scripts once, and was
disappointed when several guests ignored it.

But it's done now.

-- Jamie