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    vl: Add option to avoid stopping VM upon guest panic · c753e8e7
    Alejandro Jimenez authored
    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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlejandro 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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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    vl: Add option to avoid stopping VM upon guest panic
    Alejandro Jimenez authored
    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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlejandro 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: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>