Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for 2013-08-06

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 08/06/2013 05:15 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> * pvpanic
> - was added by default in 1.5, this might have been too rash:
>         - might change guest behaviour if guest is set to reboot on panic

Interesting, but it looks like either a feature or a driver bug.

>         - might cause slightly annoying warnings/queries from device
>           manager
>         - generally somewhat inelegant/non-symmetrical, libvirt
>           developers prefer "no magic devices"
> - conclusions:
>         - for -M 1.6, will change QEMU don't add by default, teach libvirt to 
> add
>           with -device pvpanic

This just moves the problem to a layer where it's harder to fix it.  It 
will just appear to work because no one will use pvpanic, which is not a 
solution.

Paolo