On Wednesday 20 May 2009 01:51:16 pm Avi Kivity wrote:
> Daniel Gollub wrote:
> > Plain QEMU has the parameter -no-shutdown. This avoids termination of the
> > qemu process when VM got shutdown (e.g. to still use the QEMU-Monitor
> > with stopped VM). This parameter has no effect on qemu-kvm, today.
> >
> > This patch introduces identical handling, as in qemu, of -no-shutdown for
> > qemu-kvm:
> >
> > * termination of qemu-kvm process on a VM shutdown get only avoided once
> > * second shutdown of VM cause termination of qemu-kvm (like in qemu)
> >
> >
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> What is the reason for the wierd semantics?
No idea.
> I'd expect -no-shutdown to
> keep functioning even after the first shutdown.
I would prefer something like this as well. But this way it's 1:1 the same
behavior as with plain QEMU. I'll prepare a propsoal + patch for changing this
in QEMU. If this gets accepted i'll changed it for qemu-kvm as well.
Best Regards,
Daniel
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