On 21 November 2011 23:54, Peter Chubb <pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > Do you have a suggestion for an alternative to hw_error for guest bad > behaviour? It seems to be used historically. For emulating ARM, > causing qemu to stop isn't such a bad idea ... the guest does > something wrong and the qemu instance dies with a message. It's not > as it that'll affect any other guests, each of which will have their > own qemu instance.
The question's come up before and we don't currently have a good API for it. Personally I prefer "silently ignore" for the moment; hardware doesn't chatter at you about guest OS misbehaviour... -- PMM