Re: [Qemu-devel] QMP: RFC: I/O error info & query-stop-reason

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/03/2011 08:41 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-06-03 15:26, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > I think what we're getting at is the need for an enumeration.  So let's
> > introduce one.  Here's what I propose:
> >
> > SQMP
> > query-status
> > ------------
> >
> > Return a json-object with the following information:
> >
> > - "running": true if the VM is running, or false if it is paused
> > (json-bool)
> > - "singlestep": true if the VM is in single step mode,
> >                  false otherwise (json-bool)
> > - "status": one of the following values (json-string) (optional)
> >        "prelaunch" - QEMU was started with -S and guest has not started
> >        "running" - guest is actively running
> >        "singlestep" - guest is running in single step mode
>
> "singlestep" is just a subset of "debug" stops. Better use the latter.
>
> >        "paused" - guest has been paused via the 'stop' command
> >        "postmigrate" - guest is paused following a successful 'migrate'
> >        "shutdown" - guest is shut down (and -no-shutdown is in use)
> >        "io-error" - the last IOP has failed and the device is configured
> > to pause on I/O errors
> >        "watchdog-error" - the watchdog action is configured to pause and
> > has been triggered
>
> And "panic" or "internal-error".

Can you add the request help spec text too?  Is "internal-error" a KVM 
emulation error?  If so, I'd rather make it "kvm-emulation-error".

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan