From: Kaiyang Wu <wukaiyang2003@gmail.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Cc: Kaiyang Wu <wukaiyang@loongfans.cn>
Subject: [PATCH docs 2/5] qm: add document section for the pvpanic device
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:20:09 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260914092015.125780-3-wukaiyang@loongfans.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260914092015.125780-1-wukaiyang@loongfans.cn>
Document the pvpanic device and corresponding driver requirements on
different VMs.
Signed-off-by: Kaiyang Wu <wukaiyang@loongfans.cn>
---
qm.adoc | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc
index 18a4fbe..49376ec 100644
--- a/qm.adoc
+++ b/qm.adoc
@@ -1476,6 +1476,28 @@ tag (name used to mount the device on the guest).
For more information on available virtiofsd parameters, see the
https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd[GitLab virtiofsd project page].
+[[qm_pvpanic]]
+Pvpanic
+~~~~~~~
+
+Pvpanic is a device to send system panic events to QEMU. It allows to
+provide extra VM status when the VM system crashes.
+
+To add a pvpanic PCI device run the following command:
+
+----
+qm set <vmid> -pvpanic 1
+----
+
+Linux VMs with kernel >=5.2 support pvpanic PCI device by default
+(https://www.kernelconfig.io/CONFIG_PVPANIC_PCI[pvpanic PCI driver]).
+
+Windows VMs require
+https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/[kvm-guest-drivers-windows]
+to use pvpanic.
+
+FreeBSD VMs do not support pvpanic.
+
[[qm_bootorder]]
Device Boot Order
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-14 9:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-14 9:20 [PATCH qemu-server/docs/manager/ha-manager 0/5] add pvpanic device support Kaiyang Wu
2026-09-14 9:20 ` [PATCH qemu-server 1/5] qemuserver: add pvpanic device Kaiyang Wu
2026-09-14 9:20 ` Kaiyang Wu [this message]
2026-09-14 9:20 ` [PATCH manager 3/5] ui: qemu: add pvpanic device support Kaiyang Wu
2026-09-14 9:20 ` [PATCH ha-manager 4/5] vm resource: return running status -1 for panicked VMs Kaiyang Wu
2026-09-14 9:20 ` [PATCH ha-manager 5/5] lrm: stop and restart panicked VMs to keep the "started" state Kaiyang Wu
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