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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:44:13 -0600
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between
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To: Sivaram Kannan <siva.devel@ymail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/12/2009 08:53 AM, Sivaram Kannan wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a KVM newbie and I picked up the following task from the TODO of the KVM wiki.
>>
>> Add a qemu interface for sharing memory between guests. Using a pci device to expose the shared memory is probably a good starting point. (this should use virtio and probably depends on mmu-notifiers)
>>
>> Is the task still relevant? Can I some one give some pointer for me to start with.
>>
>>
>
> Cam did a lot of work on this, perhaps he can provide a pointer.
>
> --
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

Hi Sivaram,

Here are the two patches for KVM describing what I have done.  I am
continuing to work on it and still mulling a move to virtio.  These
don't apply against the current tree, but I can provide those patches
if you would like to see them.

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38355/

http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/38347/

We're you interested in using the shared memory for something in
particular or were you just looking for a to-do task to pick up?

Let me know if you have any questions,

Cheers,
Cam