not receiving RESET event after system_reset command causes QMP connection to die

[Bram Klein Gunnewiek]

I have written my own implementation to control machine running KVM instances with the QMP protocol. Its a pretty basic implementation that sends/receives in the same thread. This means that all of the events QEMU sents are received only when the application expects a reply from a command. In the following scenario, i'm unable to (re)connect to the QMP socket from QEMU after I closed the connection:

1) Connect to QMP
2) Sent qmp_capabilities
3) Receive reply
4) Send system_reset
5) Receive reply
6) close socket
7) Connect to socket -> connection refused

However, in the following scenario, I am able to connect after I disconnect the socket because I have read the two RESET events:
1) Connect to QMP
2) Sent qmp_capabilities
3) Receive reply
4) Send system_reset
5) Receive reply
6) Receive reply (is a RESET event)
7) Receive reply (is a RESET event)
8) close socket
9) Connect to socket -> ok

I don't know if this is a bug or expected behavior. I can't find any proper way to disconnect the socket documentated. Am I doïng something wrong, or is this a bug in the QMP implementation of QEMU?

[Bram Klein Gunnewiek (i-bram)]

For what its worth, i'm using Ubuntu 12.10:
kvm --version
QEMU emulator version 1.2.0 (qemu-kvm-1.2.0+noroms-0ubuntu2.12.10.3, Debian), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Triaging old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU? Or could we close this ticket nowadays?

[Bram Klein Gunnewiek (i-bram)]

I'm not sure, the current implementation is multi-threaded so I won't hit this bug if its still present. If I can find the time I will make a proof of concept and test if the bug is still present.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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