Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Introduce virtio-testdev

[Andrew Jones]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:26:10PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Andrew Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This is a virtio version of hw/misc/debugexit and should evolve into a
> > virtio version of pc-testdev. pc-testdev uses the PC's ISA bus, whereas
> > this testdev can be plugged into a virtio-mmio transport, which is
> > needed for kvm-unit-tests/arm. virtio-testdev uses the virtio device
> > config space as a communication channel, and implements an RTAS-like
> > protocol through it allowing guests to execute commands. Only three
> > commands are currently implemented;
> > 1) VERSION: for version compatibility checks
> > 2) CLEAR:   set all the config space back to zero
> > 3) EXIT:    exit() from qemu with a status code
> 
> How about adding RESET command to reset the VM?
> 

Hi Anup,

I'm not opposed to it, but at the moment I'm not sure how we would
utilize it within kvm-unit-tests. Maybe it would be useful for another
application though? So maybe we can add it as an add-on patch at the
time we come up with its use case?

Thanks for the review!

drew