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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/15/2009 12:08 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>>> This last option makes sense to me: in a real world the user has
>>> control over where he places the device on the bus, so why
>>> not with qemu?
>>>      
>>
>> Yep, most people seem to agree that it makes sense to allow this, but
>> some believe it should only be via a machine description file, not the
>> command line.
>>    
>
> I don't understand this opposition.  It's clear a machine config file 
> is a long way in our future.  It's also clear lack of stable PCI 
> addresses hurts us now.

Is there opposition?  I don't ever recall seeing a patch...

I think it's a perfectly fine idea.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori