Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RESEND] Add monitor command for system_reboot

[Amit Shah]

On (Wed) Jul 08 2009 [19:02:16], Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 07/08/2009 06:43 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
>>> That suffers from the same problem as a system_reboot command in that
>>> the guest may never start the shutdown. If that's an acceptable
>>> limitation, then we might as well implement it directly in QEMU as
>>> system_reboot so its easily available to everyone. Make 'system_reboot'
>>> take an optional timeout arg (default to 60 seconds) after which it
>>> cancels its plans.
>>>      
>>
>> This seems the most reasonable thing to me.  As already mentioned,
>> system_powerdown already is non-deterministic since the guest could
>> ignore the ACPI event.
>>    
>
> It could also send the guest to sleep or initiate the self destruct  
> sequence.  I don't think we should press the power button unless the  
> user explicitly asked us to.  This means we'll need a guest agent like 
> Xen.

This is another use-case for vmchannel (or virtio-serial) where  the user
exists within qemu.

                Amit