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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	claudio.fontana@huawei.com, armbru@redhat.com,
	David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>,
	jani.kokkonen@huawei.com, cam@cs.ualberta.ca
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] docs: update ivshmem device spec
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 10:49:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140828094911.GA26741@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53FC69BE.7010100@redhat.com>

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:04:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 26/08/2014 08:47, David Marchand ha scritto:
> > 
> > Using a version message supposes we want to keep ivshmem-server and QEMU
> > separated (for example, in two distribution packages) while we can avoid
> > this, so why would we do so ?
> > 
> > If we want the ivshmem-server to come with QEMU, then both are supposed
> > to be aligned on your system.
> 
> What about upgrading QEMU and ivshmem-server while you have existing
> guests?  You cannot restart ivshmem-server, and the new QEMU would have
> to talk to the old ivshmem-server.

Version negotiation also helps avoid confusion if someone combines
ivshmem-server and QEMU from different origins (e.g. built from source
and distro packaged).

It's a safeguard to prevent hard-to-diagnose failures when the system is
misconfigured.

Stefan

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-28  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-08  8:55 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] ivshmem: update documentation, add client/server tools David Marchand
2014-08-08  8:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 1/2] contrib: add ivshmem client and server David Marchand
2014-08-08 14:51   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-18 12:09     ` David Marchand
2014-08-10  3:57   ` Gonglei
2014-08-18 12:19     ` David Marchand
2014-08-08  8:55 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] docs: update ivshmem device spec David Marchand
2014-08-08  9:04   ` Claudio Fontana
2014-08-08  9:32     ` David Marchand
2014-08-08 15:02   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-08-26  6:47     ` David Marchand
2014-08-26 11:04       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-08-28  9:49         ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]
2014-09-01  9:52           ` David Marchand
2014-09-09 19:04             ` Eric Blake
2014-08-08  9:30 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] ivshmem: update documentation, add client/server tools Gonglei (Arei)
2014-08-08  9:54   ` David Marchand
2014-08-08 10:26     ` Gonglei (Arei)

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