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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] don't expose pvpanic device in
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To: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Cc: minyard@acm.org, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= <afaerber@suse.de>

  Hi,

>> My point was, there may be alternative, non-PV implementations to suck
>> such information out of a guest, IPMI being one example of a management
>> interface that exists for physical servers. So it's not necessarily
>> black-or-white, but choices similar to virtio vs. IDE vs. AHCI vs. SCSI.
>>
> pvpanic not meant to replace IPMI though.

You probably don't want use both though, and if you want to pick one of
the two you need a way to turn off pvpanic.

cheers,
  Gerd