From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46782 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PujIq-00056h-Fo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:29:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PujIp-0002Dm-7L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:29:08 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:48280) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PujIo-0002DY-Rc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:29:07 -0500 Message-ID: <4D6E1BE5.5070306@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 11:28:53 +0100 From: Jes Sorensen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: Discussion of separating core functionality vs supportive features References: <4D6BD085.8000001@redhat.com> <4D6CE170.6060108@redhat.com> <4D6D01E2.1070908@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4D6D01E2.1070908@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dlaor@redhat.com Cc: Juan Quintela , Michael Roth , QEMU Developers , Anthony Liguori , Gerd Hoffmann , Adam Litke , Amit Shah On 03/01/11 15:25, Dor Laor wrote: > On 03/01/2011 02:40 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Spice is the logical place to start, no? It's the largest single >> dependency we have and it does some scary things with qemu_mutex. I >> would use spice as a way to prove the concept. > > I agree it is desirable to the this for spice but it is allot more > complex than virtagent isolation. Spice is performance sensitive and > contains much more state. It needs to access the guest memory for > reading the surfaces. It can be solved but needs some major changes. > Adding spice-devel to the discussion. Please don't add broken misconfigured mailing lists, which require moderator or subscription, to discussions on public lists. Jes