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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Enable virtio-{rng,balloon} by default
@ 2012-10-26 17:21 Anthony Liguori
  2012-10-26 17:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] rng-random: split out header for rng-random Anthony Liguori
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From: Anthony Liguori @ 2012-10-26 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Amit Shah, Paolo Bonzini, Andreas Faerber

This series depends on my virtio-rng series from earlier but goes quite a bit
further.

It creates a default backend for the virtio-rng-pci device that will be
available if the user doesn't explicitly set one.

It also creates a mechanism to provide a simple way to specify default devices
via QEMUMachine.

Finally, it adds virtio-rng and virtio-balloon to the default machine.

The principle here is to try and make a naive execution of qemu as useful as
possible.

When it comes to virtio-rng, I think it's a lot to ask of a user to try and
decide whether they need or not--so let's always make it available.

For virtio-balloon, there's really no harm in having it present and it enables
ballooning which is a feature most users expect and are aware of.

I would expect us to use a similar mechanism to expose a virtio-serial channel
for qemu-ga once we plumb guest agent actions through QMP.

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2012-10-26 17:21 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Enable virtio-{rng,balloon} by default Anthony Liguori
2012-10-26 17:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] rng-random: split out header for rng-random Anthony Liguori
2012-10-26 17:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] virtio-rng-pci: create a default backend if none exists Anthony Liguori
2012-10-26 18:59   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 19:51     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-26 20:20       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 19:53     ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 20:16       ` Anthony Liguori
2012-10-26 20:22         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-10-26 17:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] machine: add default_devices field to QEMUMachine Anthony Liguori
2012-11-05 12:27   ` Markus Armbruster
2012-10-26 17:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] pc-1.3: add virtio-rng and virtio-balloon to the default machine Anthony Liguori

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