Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qapi: add info about reset to SHUTDOWN event

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 17/10/2018 13:34, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> i would find it nicer to always be able to distinguish between
> a reset and a normal exit, since it would be less work on the
> management side (i.e. we would have to handle the qmp reset elsewhere
> instead of in the same process that monitors the events)

Ok---I am not opposed to this patch at all.  I mentioned ShutdownCause
only because it was brought up as a possible future extension when
'guest' was added.

> also it would make the 'guest' parameter redundant or change the api and
> i am not sure about how stable it has to be?

The guest parameter would have to stay even if it is redundant.

Paolo