From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/3] qemu: make cirrus init value pci spec compliant Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:53:39 +0200 Message-ID: <4AD1F173.8040401@redhat.com> References: <4ACE0559.5040206@redhat.com> <20091008160623.GA13710@redhat.com> <4ACE0FC6.3050908@redhat.com> <20091008184011.GA6576@shareable.org> <20091011133626.GA10229@redhat.com> <20091011134559.GN16702@redhat.com> <20091011135240.GA10277@redhat.com> <20091011135748.GO16702@redhat.com> <20091011143535.GA10401@redhat.com> <4AD1EED3.5000901@redhat.com> <20091011144428.GA10429@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Gleb Natapov , Jamie Lokier , Anthony Liguori , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , kvm-devel To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52017 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006AbZJKOyW (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:54:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091011144428.GA10429@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 10/11/2009 04:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > >> On 10/11/2009 04:35 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> >>> No, this is not how it works, I think. >>> Currently BIOS ROM is loaded only on init, directly into qemu memory. >>> >>> >> If we change it we break in-place upgrades - install qemu, run guest, >> upgrade qemu, reboot guest - now the old qemu runs with a new bios which >> may or may not work. >> > Sorry, could not parse this. > If you upgraded qemu, you are running with new qemu with new bios? > The guest is running during the upgrade, so the qemu executable is still from the old install (but deleted). -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function