From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: quintela@redhat.com
Cc: KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: KVM call minutes for 2013-08-06
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:47:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52011A98.6090104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v0ehmun.fsf@elfo.elfo>
On 08/06/2013 05:15 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> * pvpanic
> - was added by default in 1.5, this might have been too rash:
> - might change guest behaviour if guest is set to reboot on panic
Interesting, but it looks like either a feature or a driver bug.
> - might cause slightly annoying warnings/queries from device
> manager
> - generally somewhat inelegant/non-symmetrical, libvirt
> developers prefer "no magic devices"
> - conclusions:
> - for -M 1.6, will change QEMU don't add by default, teach libvirt to add
> with -device pvpanic
This just moves the problem to a layer where it's harder to fix it. It
will just appear to work because no one will use pvpanic, which is not a
solution.
Paolo
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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: quintela@redhat.com
Cc: qemu-devel qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for 2013-08-06
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 17:47:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52011A98.6090104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v0ehmun.fsf@elfo.elfo>
On 08/06/2013 05:15 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> * pvpanic
> - was added by default in 1.5, this might have been too rash:
> - might change guest behaviour if guest is set to reboot on panic
Interesting, but it looks like either a feature or a driver bug.
> - might cause slightly annoying warnings/queries from device
> manager
> - generally somewhat inelegant/non-symmetrical, libvirt
> developers prefer "no magic devices"
> - conclusions:
> - for -M 1.6, will change QEMU don't add by default, teach libvirt to add
> with -device pvpanic
This just moves the problem to a layer where it's harder to fix it. It
will just appear to work because no one will use pvpanic, which is not a
solution.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-06 15:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-06 15:15 KVM call minutes for 2013-08-06 Juan Quintela
2013-08-06 15:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2013-08-06 15:47 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-06 15:47 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-06 17:01 ` Gleb Natapov
2013-08-06 17:01 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gleb Natapov
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