From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] switch balloon initialization to -device.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:44:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz0alogm.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250238862-1408-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> (Gerd Hoffmann's message of "Fri\, 14 Aug 2009 10\:34\:22 +0200")
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> writes:
> With that patch applied "-balloon virtio,args" becomes a shortcut for
> "-device virtio-balloon-pci,args".
>
> Side effects:
> - ballon device gains support for id=<tag>.
> - ballon device is off by default now.
> - initialization order changes, which may in different pci slot
> assignment depending on the VM configuration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Looks good on quick inspection (gotta run), just one question: what
happens when I (stupidly) do -balloon virtio,driver=e1000 ? Question
might apply to plain -device before this patch as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-14 8:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] switch balloon initialization to -device Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-14 9:44 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2009-08-14 10:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-08-21 15:59 ` Markus Armbruster
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