From: Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
To: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>,
Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Add Xen platform PCI device version 2.
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:15:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130619201501.GD32645@ocelot.phlegethon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130619182142.GB3014@u109add4315675089e695.ant.amazon.com>
At 11:21 -0700 on 19 Jun (1371640904), Matt Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:42:06AM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> >
> > --On 19 June 2013 10:13:17 +0000 Paul Durrant
> > <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com> wrote:
> >
> > >>We obviously can't say to users "Are you running Windows and are you
> > >>running PV drivers >= X.Y, if so set lever A to position B, otherwise if
> > >>you are running some other OS or an earlier version of the Windows PV
> > >>driver set it to position A".
> > >
> > >Why not? The device can be chosen on a per-VM basis.
> >
> > Not everyone knows what guest some random user will be running
> > (consider cloud platforms).
>
> I agree. If this is really the only solution, we would need to have
> both versions presented to the guest so that old drivers continue to
> work without any intervention.
I suspect that if we expose both, both sets of drivers try to run the
same PV connections, and hilarity ensues.
Tim.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-19 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-19 9:32 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add Xen platform PCI device version 2 Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 9:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 9:43 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 9:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 10:07 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 10:13 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 10:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 10:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Bligh
2013-06-19 10:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Alex Bligh
2013-06-19 11:35 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 18:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Matt Wilson
2013-06-19 18:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Matt Wilson
2013-06-19 20:15 ` Tim Deegan
2013-06-19 20:15 ` Tim Deegan [this message]
2013-06-20 7:47 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 7:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 8:08 ` Alex Bligh
2013-06-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 8:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 8:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Alex Bligh
2013-06-20 8:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Tim Deegan
2013-06-20 9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 9:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 10:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-26 10:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-26 11:23 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 11:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-26 11:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-26 11:57 ` Tim Deegan
2013-06-26 12:06 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 12:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] " Tim Deegan
2013-06-26 12:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Tim Deegan
2013-06-26 13:00 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 13:00 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 20:00 ` Alex Bligh
2013-06-26 20:00 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Alex Bligh
2013-06-27 8:29 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-27 10:58 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-27 10:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-27 8:29 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-26 11:57 ` Tim Deegan
2013-06-26 11:23 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 8:56 ` Tim Deegan
2013-06-19 10:43 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 10:43 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 10:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Tim Deegan
2013-06-19 11:31 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 16:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 16:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-26 10:38 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-26 10:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 11:31 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 10:36 ` Tim Deegan
2013-06-19 10:07 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 10:54 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " James Harper
2013-06-19 10:54 ` James Harper
2013-06-19 11:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 15:46 ` Tim Deegan
2013-06-19 15:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Tim Deegan
2013-06-19 16:03 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 16:03 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 11:23 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 11:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 11:40 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 9:42 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-20 12:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2013-06-20 12:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-06-20 12:44 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-20 12:44 ` Paul Durrant
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