Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] virtio: don't exit on guest errors

[Amit Shah]

On (Mon) 28 Mar 2011 [23:14:16], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> When guest does something illegal, such as
> programming invalid index values in the virtio
> device, qemu currently tends to crash.
> 
> With virtio, a better idea is to log an error,
> and set status to FAIL which stops the device.
> 
> Add an API to do this, and fix core, blk and serial
> to use it on error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/virtio-blk.c        |   12 +++++--
>  hw/virtio-serial-bus.c |   13 +++++--
>  hw/virtio.c            |   79 
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  hw/virtio.h            |    7 +++-
>  4 files changed, 73 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

ACK

                Amit