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Alejandro Jimenez c753e8e725 vl: Add option to avoid stopping VM upon guest panic
The current default action of pausing a guest after a panic event
is received leaves the responsibility to resume guest execution to the
management layer. The reasons for this behavior are discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/52148F88.5000509@redhat.com/

However, in instances like the case of older guests (Linux and
Windows) using a pvpanic device but missing support for the
PVPANIC_CRASHLOADED event, and Windows guests using the hv-crash
enlightenment, it is desirable to allow the guests to continue
running after sending a PVPANIC_PANICKED event. This allows such
guests to proceed to capture a crash dump and automatically reboot
without intervention of a management layer.

Add an option to avoid stopping a VM after a panic event is received,
by passing:

-action panic=none

in the command line arguments, or during runtime by using an upcoming
QMP command.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <1607705564-26264-3-git-send-email-alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
[Do not fix panic action in the variable, instead modify -no-shutdown. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-12-15 12:51:58 -05:00
Alejandro Jimenez e6dba04813 qmp: generalize watchdog-set-action to -no-reboot/-no-shutdown
Add a QMP command to allow for the behaviors specified by the
-no-reboot and -no-shutdown command line option to be set at runtime.
The new command is named set-action and takes optional arguments, named
after an event, that provide a corresponding action to take.

Example:

-> { "execute": "set-action",
     "arguments": {
	"reboot": "none",
	"shutdown": "poweroff",
	"watchdog": "debug" } }
<- { "return": {} }

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Jimenez <alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
Message-Id: <1607705564-26264-4-git-send-email-alejandro.j.jimenez@oracle.com>
[Split the series differently, with -action based on the QMP command. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
2020-12-15 12:51:57 -05:00