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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5][IA64][HVM] Windows cras

To: John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/5][IA64][HVM] Windows crashdump support
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:01:26 +0000
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On 23/1/07 13:58, "John Levon" <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> If that's the aim then perhaps the xm command should be given a better name.
>> 'xm os-init' is rather meaningless outside the context of physical INIT
>> buttons on ia64 systems -- not a very generic concept to export to a VM
>> management tool! Perhaps 'xm os-dump' with a guest-specific backend
>> implementation in xend (default to fail with an error message).
> 
> I'd like to see a generic command that encompasses both os-init and
> sysrq. We support sysrq 'b' but feel a bit silly having that command
> name. Ideally we'd hide (but still support) 'xm sysrq' too.

Given that some of this is OS and/or arch specific, it may be hard to
concoct general names. At least the concept of a hardware 'dump switch' is
fairly well known, even if the implementation differs a bit across
architectures. I suppose we could provide better names for some of the more
useful Linux sysrq commands, provide a better / more general interface to
them (both at the xm level and the xenbus level) and encourage other PV
guests to support the new interface.

 -- Keir


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