Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2 V7] qemu, qmp: add inject-nmi qmp command

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:31:18 +0300
Blue Swirl <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 04/11/2011 08:15 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Markus Armbruster<address@hidden>
> >>  wrote:
> >> >  Avi Kivity<address@hidden>  writes:
> >> >
> >> >>  On 04/08/2011 12:41 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>  And it's a good thing to have, but exposing this as the only API to
> >> >>>  do something as simple as generating a guest crash dump is not the
> >> >>>  friendliest thing in the world to do to users.
> >> >>
> >> >>  nmi is a fine name for something that corresponds to a real-life nmi
> >> >>  button (often labeled "NMI").
> >> >
> >> >  Agree.
> >>
> >> We could also introduce an alias mechanism for user friendly names, so
> >> nmi could be used in addition of full path. Aliases could be useful
> >> for device paths as well.
> >
> > Yes.  Perhaps limited to the human monitor.
> 
> I'd limit all debugging commands (including NMI) to the human monitor.

Why?