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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: nadim khemir <nadim@khemir.net>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: Feedback and errors
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 18:02:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481B2D09.9080601@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502144527.GH5681@redhat.com>

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> I guess using file locking by default would improve the situation, and 
>> we can add a -drive ...,exclusive=no option for people playing with 
>> cluster filesystems.
>>     
>
> Turning on file locking by default will break existing apps / deployments
> using shared disks. IMHO this is a policy decision that should be solved 
> at ahigher level in the management stack where a whole world view is 
> available rather than QEMU which only knows about its own VM & host.
>   

Running a newer qemu with an older libvirt would pose a problem, yes.  
But we shouldn't ignore unmanaged deployments.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: nadim khemir <nadim@khemir.net>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] Feedback and errors
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 18:02:33 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481B2D09.9080601@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502144527.GH5681@redhat.com>

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> I guess using file locking by default would improve the situation, and 
>> we can add a -drive ...,exclusive=no option for people playing with 
>> cluster filesystems.
>>     
>
> Turning on file locking by default will break existing apps / deployments
> using shared disks. IMHO this is a policy decision that should be solved 
> at ahigher level in the management stack where a whole world view is 
> available rather than QEMU which only knows about its own VM & host.
>   

Running a newer qemu with an older libvirt would pose a problem, yes.  
But we shouldn't ignore unmanaged deployments.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 20:58 Feedback and errors nadim khemir
2008-05-02 10:52 ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-02 10:52   ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-02 14:32   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-02 14:32     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-05-02 15:00     ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-02 15:00       ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-02 15:21       ` Anthony Liguori
2008-05-02 15:21         ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2008-05-04 11:19         ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-04 11:19           ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
2008-05-04 22:52           ` nadim khemir
2008-05-04 22:52             ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " nadim khemir
2008-05-04 12:39         ` Javier Guerra Giraldez
2008-05-04 12:39           ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Javier Guerra Giraldez
2008-05-02 14:45   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-02 14:45     ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Daniel P. Berrange
2008-05-02 15:02     ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-05-02 15:02       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-02 15:23     ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2008-05-02 15:23       ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] " Jamie Lokier

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