On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:26:10PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com> wrote: > > This is a virtio version of hw/misc/debugexit and should evolve into a > > virtio version of pc-testdev. pc-testdev uses the PC's ISA bus, whereas > > this testdev can be plugged into a virtio-mmio transport, which is > > needed for kvm-unit-tests/arm. virtio-testdev uses the virtio device > > config space as a communication channel, and implements an RTAS-like > > protocol through it allowing guests to execute commands. Only three > > commands are currently implemented; > > 1) VERSION: for version compatibility checks > > 2) CLEAR: set all the config space back to zero > > 3) EXIT: exit() from qemu with a status code > > How about adding RESET command to reset the VM? >
Hi Anup, I'm not opposed to it, but at the moment I'm not sure how we would utilize it within kvm-unit-tests. Maybe it would be useful for another application though? So maybe we can add it as an add-on patch at the time we come up with its use case? Thanks for the review! drew
