Hi Peter,
Why can't we use SIGHUP, again?
I suppose for all those people who use non ACPI-aware guests in non daemonized Qemu instances and usually close their terminal without stopping Qemu first on the assumption that Qemu will stop itself automatically: this wouldn't work anymore... More seriously, Qemu is a very versatile piece of software. I can only rely on the word of experienced Qemu maintainers who have a better view than me on the general Qemu user-base to determine whether a change of SIGHUP handling will have a negative effect or not. Using SIGHUP was my initial proposition and is the easy way to go. In case it is determined that this would have too much side effects and that no other signal is usable, the only other way I see is to add a new command-line option to let users select Qemu behavior. Regards, Simon.
