Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu,qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command

[Anthony Liguori]

On 04/07/2011 02:17 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 10:04:00PM +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Gleb Natapov<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > I'd prefer something more generic like these:
> > raise /address@hidden:l1int
> > lower /i44FX-pcihost/address@hidden/pinD
> >
> > The clumsier syntax shouldn't be a problem, since this would be a
> > system developer tool.
> >
> > Some kind of IRQ registration would be needed for this to work without
> > lots of changes.
> True. The ability to trigger any interrupt line is very useful for
> debugging. I often re-implement it during debug.

And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the only API to do 
something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is not the 
friendliest thing in the world to do to users.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> --
>                         Gleb.