Re: KVM call minutes for 2022-01-25

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>]

On 25/1/22 17:39, Juan Quintela wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Today we have the KVM devel call.  We discussed how to create machines
> from QMP without needing to recompile QEMU.
> 
> 
> Three different problems:
> - startup QMP (*)
>    not discussed today
> - one binary or two
>    not discussed today
> - being able to create machines dynamically.
>    everybody agrees that we want this. Problem is how.
> - current greensocs approach
> - interested for all architectures, they need a couple of them
> 
> what greensocs have:
> - python program that is able to read a blob that have a device tree from the blob
> - basically the machine type is empty and is configured from there
> - 100 machines around 400 devices models
> - Need to do the configuration before the machine construction happens
> - different hotplug/coldplug
> - How to describe devices that have multiple connections

- problem realizing objects that have inter-dependent link properties

Mirela, you mention an issue with TYPE_CPU_CLUSTER / TYPE_CPU, is that
an example of this qom inter-link problem?

> As the discussion is quite complicated, here is the recording of it.
> 
> Later, Juan.
> 
> 
> https://redhat.bluejeans.com/m/TFyaUsLqt3T/?share=True
> 
> *: We will talk about this on the next call
> 
>