Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/5] qmp: add SUSPEND_DISK event

[Eric Blake]

On 08/09/2012 11:30 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> Emitted when the guest makes a request to enter S4 state.
> 
> There are three possible ways of having this event, as described here:
> 
>  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg02307.html
> 
> I've decided to add a new event and make it indepedent of SHUTDOWN.
> This means that the SHUTDOWN event will eventually follow the
> SUSPEND_DISK event.
> 
> I've choosen this way because of two reasons:
> 
>  1. Having an indepedent event makes it possible to query for its
>     existence by using query-events
> 
>  2. In the future, we may allow the user to change what QEMU should
>     do as a result of the guest entering S4. So it's a good idea to
>     keep both events separated

Indeed makes sense as a separate event.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> ---
> 
> This is on top of:
> 
>  [PATCH 0/4]: qmp: WAKEUP event related fixes
> 
>  QMP/qmp-events.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  hw/acpi.c          |  2 ++
>  monitor.c          |  1 +
>  monitor.h          |  1 +
>  4 files changed, 18 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/QMP/qmp-events.txt b/QMP/qmp-events.txt
> index 2001a71..1c51bee 100644
> --- a/QMP/qmp-events.txt
> +++ b/QMP/qmp-events.txt
> @@ -252,6 +252,20 @@ Example:
>  { "event": "SUSPEND",
>       "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344456160, "microseconds": 309119 } }
>  
> +SUSPEND_DISK
> +------------
> +
> +Emitted when the guest makes a request to enter S4 state.
> +
> +Data: None.
> +
> +Example:
> +
> +{ "event": "SUSPEND_DISK",
> +     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344456160, "microseconds": 309119 } }
> +
> +Note: QEMU shutdowns when entering S4 state.

s/shutdowns/shuts down/

Is that true when you use the -no-shutdown flag?  Do you get this event
if you did not use the -no-shutdown flag?

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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