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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:18:29 +0100
From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 12/14/09 17:23, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 04:01:33PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> So how do you do this?
> Assume we have -disable_hw_csum.
> We want new machine type to have it off, right?
> But now you run qemu on host which does
> not support hw_csum. With your suggestion
> it will not enable hw csum?

I have trouble getting the setup you are talking about ...

Sounds like hw_csum could be enabled/disabled depending on the hardware 
capabilities on the host.  Is that correct?

cheers,
   Gerd