From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39259) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awph5-0003PW-Qm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 07:38:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awpgu-00009L-7z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 07:37:42 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34412) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1awpgu-00006w-2S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 01 May 2016 07:37:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 14:37:19 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20160501134233-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1459509388-6185-1-git-send-email-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> <1459509388-6185-12-git-send-email-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> <20160428052304.GF25677@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> <20160429174835.GH5641@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160429174835.GH5641@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] vhost-user: add shutdown support List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Yuanhan Liu Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Marc-Andr=E9?= Lureau , QEMU , Ilya Maximets , jonshin@cisco.com, Tetsuya Mukawa , "Xie, Huawei" On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:48:35AM -0700, Yuanhan Liu wrote: > > But, I > > would worry first about a backend that crashes that it may corrupt the > > VM memory too... > > Not quite sure I follow this. But, backend just touches the virtio > related memory, so it will do no harm to the VM? It crashed so apparently it's not behaving as designed - how can we be sure it does not harm the VM? -- MST