Luiz Capitulino <lcapitul...@redhat.com> writes:

> This series adds support to the block layer to keep track of devices'
> I/O status. That information is also made available in QMP and HMP.
>
> The goal here is to allow management applications that miss the
> BLOCK_IO_ERROR event to able to query the VM to determine if any device has
> caused the VM to stop and which device caused it.
>
> Here's an HMP example:
>
>   (qemu) info status 
>   VM status: paused (io-error)
>   (qemu) info block
>   ide0-hd0: removable=0 io-status=ok file=disks/test2.img ro=0 drv=qcow2 
> encrypted=0
>   ide0-hd1: removable=0 io-status=nospace file=/dev/vg_doriath/kvmtest ro=0 
> drv=qcow2 encrypted=0
>   ide1-cd0: removable=1 locked=0 io-status=ok [not inserted]
>   floppy0: removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
>   sd0: removable=1 locked=0 [not inserted]
>
> The session above shows that the VM is stopped due to an I/O error. By using
> the info block command it's possible to determine that the 'ide0-hd1' device
> caused the error, which turns out to be due to no space.

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>

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