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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
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> What's the problem with parsing the device config and modifying it?  
> Is it just complexity?

Two-way modification.  Management wants to store the configuration in 
their database and tell the hypervisor what the machine looks like.  If 
qemu also tells management what the machine looks like, we can easily 
get conflicts.

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