Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/21] Kemari for KVM 0.2

Paul Brook
2010-11-29T17:19:02Z

> On 11/29/2010 10:53 AM, Paul Brook wrote:
> >>> Is this a fair summary: any device that supports live migration workw
> >>> under Kemari?
> >>
> >> It might be fair summary but practically we barely have live migration
> >> working w/o Kemari. In addition, last I checked Kemari needs additional
> >> hooks and it will be too hard to keep that out of tree until all devices
> >> get it.
> >
> > That's not what I've been hearing earlier in this thread.
> > The responses from Yoshi indicate that Stefan's summary is correct. i.e.
> > the current Kemari implementation may require per-device hooks, but
> > that's a bug and should be fixed before merging.
>
> It's actually really important that Kemari make use of an intermediate
> layer such that the hooks can distinguish between a device access and a
> recursive access.

I'm failing to understand how this is anything other than running sed over
block/*.c (or hw/*.c, depending whether you choose to rename the internal or
external API).

Paul