From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: "Marc-André Lureau" <mlureau@redhat.com>
Cc: marcandre lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ivshmem property size should be a size, not a string
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:22:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87io4sinjr.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87oael587p.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> (Markus Armbruster's message of "Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:19:22 +0100")
Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
> Marc-André Lureau <mlureau@redhat.com> writes:
[...]
>>> * shm appears to be the same as memdev, just less flexible. Why does it
>>> exist?
>>
>> It was there before.
>
> Not only is memdev more flexible, it also provides the clean split
> between frontend and backend we generally want.
In my tests, shm=foo can indeed be replaced by -object
memory-backend=file,mem-path=/dev/shm/foo.
However, /dev/shm is Linux-specific. For portability, we might need a
memory-backend-shm.
[...]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-23 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-20 16:07 [Qemu-devel] ivshmem property size should be a size, not a string Markus Armbruster
2015-11-20 16:23 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-20 16:46 ` Eric Blake
2015-11-20 18:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-20 18:20 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-20 19:39 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-20 20:18 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-23 10:19 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 12:15 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-23 13:25 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 13:48 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-23 14:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 14:16 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-23 14:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 14:53 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-23 15:17 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 19:52 ` Eric Blake
2015-11-23 20:19 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-24 9:56 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-24 12:23 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-24 13:50 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-24 14:23 ` Marc-André Lureau
2015-11-24 15:12 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 18:22 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2015-11-23 23:29 ` Andrew James
2015-11-24 9:52 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-11-23 20:57 ` Bruce Rogers
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