From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46701) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4AKy-0004xK-IB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:42:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4AKw-0004LS-RS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:42:36 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com ([209.85.161.181]:53257) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4AKw-0004LB-Kq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:42:34 -0400 Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so3070707gxk.12 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:42:33 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <10145AAB-25FC-40A9-A881-68C693067FBB@tellabs.com> References: <870BD672-6618-4D85-91B0-BE3838C5FCDE@tellabs.com> <20110911133448.GA23960@stefanha-thinkpad.localdomain> <5744951E-D75B-438F-B06D-AED06242D457@tellabs.com> <10145AAB-25FC-40A9-A881-68C693067FBB@tellabs.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:42:33 +0100 Message-ID: From: Stefan Hajnoczi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu virtIO blocking operation - question List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Sinha, Ani" Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Sinha, Ani wrote: > Makes sense? I'm still not sure what the point of multiplexing host IPMI into guests is. The guest should not be able to power off the host. It shouldn't be able to mess with the watchdog timer. It may wish to read sensors but do they even make sense to a guest with virtual hardware? Stefan