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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

  On 08/03/2010 07:46 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> It doesn't appear to support live migration, or hiding the feature 
>> for -M older.
>>
>> It's not a good path to follow.  Tomorrow we'll need to load 300MB 
>> initrds and we'll have to rework this yet again.  Meanwhile the 
>> kernel and virtio support demand loading of any image size you'd want 
>> to use.
>
>
> firmware is totally broken with respect to -M older FWIW.
>

Well, then this is adding to the brokenness.

fwcfg dma is going to have exactly one user, libguestfs.  Much better to 
have libguestfs move to some other interface and improve are 
users-to-interfaces ratio.

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