Re: [PATCH 0/2 v3] kvm: notify host when guest panicked

[Wen Congyang]

At 03/15/2012 07:46 PM, Avi Kivity Wrote:
> On 03/15/2012 01:25 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>
>>> There was such vm exit (KVM_EXIT_HYPERCALL), but it was deemed to be a
>>> bad idea.
>>
>> BTW, this would help a lot in emulating hypercalls of other hypervisors
>> (or of KVM's VAPIC in the absence of in-kernel irqchip - I had to jump
>> through hoops therefore) in user space. Not all those hypercall handlers
>> actually have to reside in the KVM module.
>>
> 
> That is true.  On the other hand the hypercall ABI might go to pieces if
> there was no central implementation.
> 

I prefer this:
host <-> guest kernel: use hypercall

host <-> guest userspace: use virtio-serial(or other way that not modify kernel)

Thanks
Wen Congyang
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