[Qemu-devel] Re: qemu-kvm-0.11 regression, crashes on older guests with virtio network

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:16:43AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> I agree we shouldn't exit in this scenario

virtio in qemu generally seems to handle guest errors
by calling exit(2). This probably makes it easier to notice
the problems, but is likely not the right thing to do.

A simple way to tell guest there's a problem is by
writing a value > ring size into used ring.

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