its default behaviour is to stop the emulator (i.e. suspend the VM).
For automated tests, this is bad, because is makes the VM appear to
hang without any error message. The "werror=report" flag causes
QEMU to report the problem to the VM. As a side effect QEMU exits
very elegantly:
[ 2.308668] end_request: I/O error, dev vda, sector 534400
[ 2.309611] Buffer I/O error on device vda, logical block 66800
...
*** glibc detected *** /nix/store/yhngqrww53j0aw7z7v4bv948x5g5fc3d-qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x08e3e040 ***
Aborted
So I guess we now depend on a bug in QEMU :-)
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