From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:55:48 +0300 Message-ID: <4A34AD04.7080701@redhat.com> References: <20090610145540.GI19375@poweredge.glommer> <20090610150129.GC28601@redhat.com> <200906101624.30659.paul@codesourcery.com> <20090610174301.GC7416@shareable.org> <20090610182227.GN28601@redhat.com> <20090610192702.GH7416@shareable.org> <1244796209.16425.20.camel@blaa> <4A326B5C.5010501@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Jamie Lokier , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Carsten Otte , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38341 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752997AbZFNH6M (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jun 2009 03:58:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A326B5C.5010501@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Anthony Liguori wrote: > > What's the problem with parsing the device config and modifying it? > Is it just complexity? Two-way modification. Management wants to store the configuration in their database and tell the hypervisor what the machine looks like. If qemu also tells management what the machine looks like, we can easily get conflicts. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function