Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] QEMU: necessary simple pre-requisites for VMBus emulation

["Denis V. Lunev" <den-lists@parallels.com>]

On 09/16/2015 01:32 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
> On 16/09/2015 11:59, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
>> Hyper-V reset, vp index, vp runtime support is required to
>> support loading Windows guest driver Winhv.sys. Winhv.sys in guest
>> is required to support Windows VMBus.
>>
>> These changes are simple and straightforward. Let's them go first.
>>
>> Paolo, I am sending these patches without taking into account your
>> patchset with header cleanup. Should we do something? I would be also
>> be happy to hear news about remaining patches from Andrey about HyperV
>> panic.
> They didn't compile on ARM or Win32, hence the header file changes which
> delayed them a bit.  But I still plan to send out the pull request very
> soon, maybe today (ouch, it's already 12:30).
>
> I wanted to include the record-replay patches, but they are big enough
> that they probably deserve their own pull request, and my queue already
> has 23 patches...
>
>> Please let us know is something from our side will improve the
>> situation.
> No, it's just my issue.
>
> However, there is something we can improve about the process.  QEMU
> typically updates header files around 4.3-rc5 (by importing the changes
> destined to 4.4), so we need a place to put this kind of patch that
> depends on Linux header changes.  Therefore:
>
> 1) I've made a staging branch uq/hyperv (uq = upstream queue) on
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git - you can base your
> patches on that branch as soon as I create it.
>
> 2) if you have more changes to asm/hyperv.h, bundle them and send them
> to kvm@vger.kernel.org.  I'll include them in kvm/queue all at the same
> time, which will make header file synchronization less of a problem in
> the future.
>
> Paolo
>
that sounds great to me. OK, will do.

Den