From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbk7g-0003Yi-Gy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbk7e-0003YW-79 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57963 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Lbk7e-0003YT-1b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:02 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:37502) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lbk7d-0001x8-Qp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:01 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lbk7c-0008Fq-OC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:01 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] More robust migration Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:21:56 +0000 References: <499EBFD8.50307@amd.com> <200902231155.09093.paul@codesourcery.com> <20090223220708.GA8471@shareable.org> In-Reply-To: <20090223220708.GA8471@shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902232321.57464.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Jamie Lokier Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > Can't KVM invoke QEMU's emulation capabilities for those things it > cannot provide itself because of missing host abilities? You'd have to ask the KVM folks, but I suspect the answer is no. Certainly if you care about performance then you really don't want to be emulating stuff. If you know you're going to want to do this this then the solution is to expose a lowest-common-denominator set of features from the start. Paul