Re: In kernel PIC support: kernel patch

Avi Kivity
2007-06-25T21:57:08Z

Dor Laor wrote:
>>> It can, but a little bit more complicated, and probably unable to
>>>
> live
>
>>> migration between KVM and Qemu since Qemu only has one IOAPIC.
>>>
>> Good point, but is that a design requirement?
>>
>>
>
> Migration between KVM and qemu is not a requirement and I don't see
> important value there. When many PV devices will be around it wouldn't
> be possible also.
>

If device emulation for these pv devices is added to qemu, or if the
in-kernel pv devices have an interface that allows qemu to pass a
hypercall, then it can be made to work.