From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] ac97: don't override the pci subsystem id
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:10:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB7F4C8.4080004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB7F285.9080009@redhat.com>
Hi,
> This is more of an edge case however, since we know that hardware tools
> rely on PCI IDs.
The ID is invalid, you can't do anything useful with it ...
> For example our hypothetical ABI signature tool will
> certainly include lspci like functionality and detect this as a change.
... except maybe recording it somewhere to notice when changes.
So I guess your point is Windows guests might think they got a new sound
card, record that has hardware change and may require re-activation
because of that?
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-07 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 11:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] ac97: don't override the pci subsystem id Gerd Hoffmann
2011-11-07 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-11-07 14:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 14:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 14:50 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 15:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 15:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2011-11-07 15:15 ` Avi Kivity
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