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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] ivshmem property size should be a size,
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To: =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= 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>

Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:

> Marc-Andr=C3=A9 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=3Dfoo can indeed be replaced by -object
memory-backend=3Dfile,mem-path=3D/dev/shm/foo.

However, /dev/shm is Linux-specific.  For portability, we might need a
memory-backend-shm.

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