On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:28:47AM -0700, Ed Swierk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
> wrote:
> > With the watchdog we have a much wider set of actions that we can
> > instruct QEMU to do:
> >
> > 'reset' — default, forcefully reset the guest
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:23:11AM -0700, Ed Swierk wrote:
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
I'm trying to understand the situation. So you have a guest that
handles crashes itself (like kdump, let's say), but on_crash options are
not enough for
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> With the watchdog we have a much wider set of actions that we can
> instruct QEMU to do:
>
> 'reset' — default, forcefully reset the guest
> 'shutdown' — gracefully shutdown the guest (not recommended)
>
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:43 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> I'm trying to understand the situation. So you have a guest that
> handles crashes itself (like kdump, let's say), but on_crash options are
> not enough for you:
>
> - preserve is bad because the guest is not
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 08:43:30AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:34:21PM -0700, Ed Swierk wrote:
> > The panic device is currently documented as a way for "libvirt to receive
> > panic notification from a QEMU guest".
> >
> > This is true, but not the whole story.
On 04/28/2017 02:34 AM, Ed Swierk wrote:
> The panic device is currently documented as a way for "libvirt to receive
> panic notification from a QEMU guest".
>
> This is true, but not the whole story. When a guest triggers the panic
> device, QEMU pauses the guest, and libvirt takes the action
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:34:21PM -0700, Ed Swierk wrote:
The panic device is currently documented as a way for "libvirt to receive
panic notification from a QEMU guest".
This is true, but not the whole story. When a guest triggers the panic
device, QEMU pauses the guest, and libvirt takes the
The panic device is currently documented as a way for "libvirt to receive
panic notification from a QEMU guest".
This is true, but not the whole story. When a guest triggers the panic
device, QEMU pauses the guest, and libvirt takes the action specified by
on_crash. This can interfere with the