Re: [Qemu-devel] Crash: When Host HDD is full

[Alexey Eremenko]

On 7/19/07, Andreas Färber <address@hidden> wrote:
> Regarding the user's point of view described above, I concur that a
> switch would be a good compromise. However given that someone using
> CVS head is likely to read the mailing list and all other users
> upgrading should read the release notes, this option should be the
> default or otherwise exactly those users the feature is targeted at
> will not use the switch! It's also more frontend-friendly not needing
> an additional switch for mainstream users.

Agreed. This bug is critical in both senses - from developer's point
of view - that's a crash - something should be prevented at all costs,
and from user point of view, where user should not need to run after
the crash/exception number and read tons of logs to understand why
Qemu crash or his guest crashed.

As Adam wrote, other virtualization vendors already provide a fix for
such a situation, so why re-invert the wheel ? Let's just follow them,
and pause the VM, with displaying a warning message to the user.

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-Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"