Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: Add force option support to pci_del command

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/17/2010 01:15 PM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
>   This is a general question for all commands that can take way too long
> or never return.
>
>   For QMP the question is whether we should handle this in QEMU or in the
> client. Ie, if the guest doesn't respond the client could detect that
> and cancel the async command.
>    

Exactly.  It's no different than a migration that takes too long.

>   For HMP we could just live with that or suspend the shell and allow the
> user to cancel the operation (eg. ctrl+c) and the obvious alternative is to
> have timeouts, allowing the user to set them.
>    

Yeah, ctrl+c to cancel would be a very nice feature.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori