From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Markus Armbruster Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:32:31 +0200 Message-ID: <87zlcakqog.fsf@pike.pond.sub.org> 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> <4A326C7E.3020309@codemonkey.ws> <1244822007.30522.68.camel@blaa> <4A327E87.6080005@codemonkey.ws> <1244825333.26769.20.camel@blaa> <4A34ADA9.80709@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Carsten Otte , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:60798 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751078AbZFOFfN (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:35:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A34ADA9.80709@redhat.com> (Avi Kivity's message of "Sun\, 14 Jun 2009 10\:58\:33 +0300") Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity writes: > Mark McLoughlin wrote: [...] >>> NB the device tree contains no host configuration information. >>> >> >> So, it wouldn't e.g. include the path to the image file for a block >> device? That would always be specified on the command line? >> > > Or in a different file. I agree splitting host and guest > configuration is a must-have, this ensures portability of virtual > machines across hosts and time. Splitting into two separate sections should suffice, they could live in the same file for convenience.