Re: [Qemu-devel] QMP event on reboot when -no-reboot is set

[John Snow]

On 11/16/2016 09:01 AM, Dirk Braunschweiger wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I want to get a qmp event when the qemu does a shutdown due to the
> -no-reboot flag. Looking at the code I realized that the -no-reboot flag
> just changes any reset request to a shutdown request.
> Does anybody already patched qemu to emit some kind of reboot event to
> the qmp socket?
>
> If no one already patched it, would you accept such a patch? Or is a
> non-wanted feature?
>
> Best regards,
> Dirk Braunschweiger

Is the existing "STOP" event insufficient for some reason? Is it 
important to distinguish between a 'real' stop and a stop that was 
originally intended to be a reboot?

If you can elaborate on that case, you have a good chance of amending 
the event spec to add some new events.

--js