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

Paul Brook
2010-11-29T13:01:02Z

> >> Could you formulate the constraints so developers are aware of them in
> >> the future and can protect the codebase. How about expanding the
> >> Kemari wiki pages?
> >
> > If you like the idea above, I'm happy to make the list also on
> > the wiki page.
>
> Here's a different question: what requirements must an emulated device
> meet in order to be added to the Kemari supported whitelist? That's
> what I want to know so that I don't break existing devices and can add
> new devices that work with Kemari :).

Why isn't it completely device agnostic? i.e. if a device has to care about
Kemari at all (of vice-versa) then IMO you're doing it wrong. The whole point
of the internal block/net APIs is that they isolate the host implementation
details from the device emulation.

Paul