Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pc: make vgabios exit port more useful

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/24/2011 04:02 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Too subtle, IMO. I understand that we want to avoid a full qmp parser
> > for one-off unit tests, but using bit fields in the exit code?
> >
> > Perhaps a python script that launches qemu with qmp and -no-shutdown,
> > listens for the guest shutdown event, and prints out the result? That
> > can be easily reused in test scripts.
>
>
> How can the test pass data via shutdown?  You would need a scratch 
> register of some form I think...

I meant using the port in the patch.  Just replace exit() with the 
ordinary shutdown path - notifications, and not exiting if -no-shutdown 
is requested.

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