From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: David Evensky <evensky@dancer.ca.sandia.gov>,
David Evensky <evensky@sandia.gov>,
Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
kvm@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: adds a PCI device that exports a host shared segment as a PCI BAR in the guest
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:11:45 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1314249105.32391.64.camel@jaguar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1B781A18-BDBF-43EE-B4FE-C4393EC21AD3@suse.de>
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 23:52 -0500, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Isn't ivshmem in QEMU? If so, then I don't think there isn't any
> > competition. How do you feel that these are competing?
>
> Well, it means that you will inside the guest have two different
> devices depending whether you're using QEMU or kvm-tool. I don't see
> the point in exposing different devices to the guest just because of
> NIH. Why should a guest care which device emulation framework you're
> using?
It's a pretty special-purpose device that requires user configuration so
I don't consider QEMU compatibility to be mandatory. It'd be nice to
have but not something to bend over backwards for.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-25 5:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-24 22:25 [PATCH] kvm tools: adds a PCI device that exports a host shared segment as a PCI BAR in the guest David Evensky
2011-08-25 3:27 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-25 4:49 ` David Evensky
2011-08-25 4:52 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-25 5:11 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
[not found] ` <A16CB574-D2F7-440B-BD26-12EB4DEAD917@suse.de>
2011-08-25 5:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 5:38 ` Alexander Graf
2011-08-25 5:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 5:49 ` David Evensky
2011-08-25 10:31 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-25 10:37 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 10:59 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-08-25 11:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 11:30 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 11:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 11:51 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 12:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 11:51 ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-25 11:25 ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-25 15:08 ` David Evensky
2011-08-25 22:08 ` Eric Northup
2011-08-25 22:27 ` David Evensky
2011-08-26 6:33 ` Sasha Levin
2011-08-26 15:05 ` David Evensky
[not found] ` <30669_1314285268_p7PFESZN013126_20110825150806.GF24996@dancer.ca.sandia.gov>
2011-08-25 21:00 ` David Evensky
2011-08-25 21:11 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 22:03 ` David Evensky
2011-08-28 7:34 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-29 4:55 ` David Evensky
2011-08-25 5:41 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-25 6:01 ` David Evensky
2011-08-25 6:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 6:11 ` David Evensky
[not found] ` <CAFO3S41WOutTEmMGAeor6w=OZ_cax_AHB7Wo24jfUioynv3DFg@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4E55E378.4060904@kernel.org>
2011-08-25 6:30 ` Asias He
2011-08-25 7:02 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 7:20 ` Asias He
2011-08-25 7:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-08-25 21:35 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-25 21:50 ` David Evensky
2011-08-26 6:11 ` Sasha Levin
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