Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-kvm guest which won't 'cont' (emulation failure?)

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 24.10.2011 13:29, schrieb Chris Webb:
> Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> In qemu 1.0 we'll have an extended 'info status' that includes the stop
>> reason, but 0.14 doesn't have this yet (was committed to git master only
>> recently).
> 
> Right, okay. I might take a look at cherry-picking and back-porting that to
> our version of qemu-kvm if it's not too entangled with other changes. It
> would be very useful in these situations.

I'm afraid that it depends on many other changes, but you can try.

> 
>> If you attach a QMP monitor (see QMP/README, don't forget to send the
>> capabilities command, it's part of creating the connection) you will
>> receive messages for I/O errors, though.
> 
> Thanks. I don't think I can do this with an already-running qemu-kvm that's
> in a stopped state can I, only with a new qemu-kvm invocation and wait to
> try to catch the problem again?

Good point... The only other thing that I can think of would be
attaching gdb and setting a breakpoint in vm_stop() or something.

Kevin