On 4 June 2014 10:39, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: > It's a kind of "emergency button" on real machines. On PCs it sends an NMI > and this results in some kind of crash dump if the OS is configured > appropriately. The command may be ill-named for historical reasons, but the > effect is not x86-specific.
OK, so our callback function name should be sensibly named to match what the effect is supposed to be, and we should have a sensibly named command, and we should make "nmi" be a historical-legacy-backwards-compatibility command alias (possibly only exposed for x86). thanks -- PMM