From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between guests. Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:55:04 +0200 Message-ID: <4AD2EEE8.1080004@redhat.com> References: <201116.8467.qm@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Cam Macdonell To: Sivaram Kannan Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:10795 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755044AbZJLI4A (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:56:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <201116.8467.qm@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/12/2009 08:53 AM, Sivaram Kannan wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a KVM newbie and I picked up the following task from the TODO of the KVM wiki. > > Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between guests. Using a pci device to expose the shared memory is probably a good starting point. (this should use virtio and probably depends on mmu-notifiers) > > Is the task still relevant? Can I some one give some pointer for me to start with. > > Cam did a lot of work on this, perhaps he can provide a pointer. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxGgu-0000mp-7d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:55:40 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MxGgp-0000l2-HI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:55:39 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35698 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MxGgp-0000kz-D2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:55:35 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:16515) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MxGgo-0000bW-Uy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:55:35 -0400 Message-ID: <4AD2EEE8.1080004@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:55:04 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <201116.8467.qm@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <201116.8467.qm@web111105.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between guests. List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sivaram Kannan Cc: Cam Macdonell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On 10/12/2009 08:53 AM, Sivaram Kannan wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a KVM newbie and I picked up the following task from the TODO of the KVM wiki. > > Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between guests. Using a pci device to expose the shared memory is probably a good starting point. (this should use virtio and probably depends on mmu-notifiers) > > Is the task still relevant? Can I some one give some pointer for me to start with. > > Cam did a lot of work on this, perhaps he can provide a pointer. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function