Re: [PATCH 0/5] qemu: IDE/ATAPI emulation reliability fixes

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:
> for qemu is probably not that much of a priority as they already have the
> patches, most of them committed and the bugs are only in their development
> tree which they don't release anyway, for kvm it is IMHO different since the
> bugs are on released code with patch 2 (which ate 3 of my FreeBSD guests with
> unrecoverable images which wouldn't even have a valid partition table) being
> around since the qemu import of Oct 1 and therefore part of kvm-45 and all
> releases up to the date.
>
> I understand though why you wouldn't like to divert from qemu, and I'll do my
> best to try to get qemu to commit those patches so that any future conflicts
> are resolved automatically, but as I said before, qemu just had different
> priorities.
>
>   

You make some good points;  I'll respin the merge and this time bisect
the problems and revert the offending patches.  I'll add these patches
as well if qemu hasn't merged it by that time.


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