From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSerR-00068N-VT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:46 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LSerR-00067G-G3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:45 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51437 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LSerQ-00066l-Qd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:44 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f15.google.com ([209.85.219.15]:39151) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSerQ-0002YC-2R for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:44 -0500 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so304473ewy.10 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:55:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <498225C0.4070702@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:55:12 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtio ballon device always loaded ? References: <674396.67573.qm@web24506.mail.ird.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <674396.67573.qm@web24506.mail.ird.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Sylvain Petreolle wrote: > Testing ReactOS in qemu made it always asking drivers for a RAM Controller. > > Looking at "info pci" output and hw/pc.c, I see that the Virtio balloon device is always loaded in an x86/64 target. > Is that a wanted feature ? > Sure, as I see no harm in not enabling it by default. ReactOS doesn't just ignore unknown PCI devices? That's strange because Windows seems to. Regards, Anthony Liguori > I also notice that hw/virtio-balloon.c header refers to the Virtio Block Device. > > Kind regards, > Sylvain Petreolle > > > >