From: Kaiyang Wu <wukaiyang2003@gmail.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Cc: Kaiyang Wu <wukaiyang@loongfans.cn>
Subject: [PATCH docs v4 2/3] qm: add document section for the pvpanic device
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 17:55:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261102095525.1635251-3-wukaiyang@loongfans.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261102095525.1635251-1-wukaiyang@loongfans.cn>
Document the pvpanic device and corresponding driver requirements on
different VMs.
Suggested-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Signed-off-by: Kaiyang Wu <wukaiyang@loongfans.cn>
---
qm.adoc | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc
index 18a4fbe..a994372 100644
--- a/qm.adoc
+++ b/qm.adoc
@@ -1476,6 +1476,40 @@ 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 and perform the specified panic action when the VM
+system crashes.
+
+To add a pvpanic device run the following command:
+
+----
+qm set <vmid> -pvpanic enabled=1[,action=<action>]
+----
+
+A panic action can be specified to perform when the VM system crashes. Available
+panic actions are:
+
+* `none`: Continue VM execution
+* `pause`: Pause the VM
+* `shutdown`: Shutdown the VM and exit, according to the shutdown action
+* `exit-failure`: Shutdown the VM and exit with non-zero status
+
+NOTE: The default panic action is `shutdown`.
+
+NOTE: VMs managed by the HA stack can set `exit-failure` to exit the QEMU
+process completely and let the HA stack start it again.
+
+Linux VMs with kernel >=5.2 support pvpanic PCI device by default.
+
+Windows VMs require https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_VirtIO_Drivers[Windows
+VirtIO Drivers] to use pvpanic.
+
+FreeBSD VMs do not support pvpanic.
+
[[qm_bootorder]]
Device Boot Order
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
--
2.56.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-02 9:55 [PATCH qemu-server v4 0/3] add pvpanic device support Kaiyang Wu
2026-11-02 9:55 ` [PATCH qemu-server v4 1/3] qemuserver: add pvpanic device Kaiyang Wu
2026-11-02 9:55 ` Kaiyang Wu [this message]
2026-11-02 9:55 ` [PATCH manager v4 3/3] ui: qemu: add pvpanic device support Kaiyang Wu
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