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authorAlejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>2020-12-11 17:31:52 -0500
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2020-12-15 12:51:58 -0500
commitc753e8e72548493d2a110c0482c4a987a733b033 (patch)
treec8830e44baac83400639be1e8ea4bfbd39d91f7b /include
parent2a5ad60b5406daca3658f2a6735318615ee6a116 (diff)
vl: Add option to avoid stopping VM upon guest panic
The current default action of pausing a guest after a panic event is received leaves the responsibility to resume guest execution to the management layer. The reasons for this behavior are discussed here: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/52148F88.5000509@redhat.com/ However, in instances like the case of older guests (Linux and Windows) using a pvpanic device but missing support for the PVPANIC_CRASHLOADED event, and Windows guests using the hv-crash enlightenment, it is desirable to allow the guests to continue running after sending a PVPANIC_PANICKED event. This allows such guests to proceed to capture a crash dump and automatically reboot without intervention of a management layer. Add an option to avoid stopping a VM after a panic event is received, by passing: -action panic=none in the command line arguments, or during runtime by using an upcoming QMP command. Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com> Message-Id: <1607705564-26264-3-git-send-email-alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com> [Do not fix panic action in the variable, instead modify -no-shutdown. - Paolo] Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/sysemu/runstate-action.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/sysemu/runstate-action.h b/include/sysemu/runstate-action.h
index 51a461c4ac..cff45a047b 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/runstate-action.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/runstate-action.h
@@ -14,5 +14,6 @@
/* in softmmu/runstate-action.c */
extern RebootAction reboot_action;
extern ShutdownAction shutdown_action;
+extern PanicAction panic_action;
#endif /* RUNSTATE_ACTION_H */