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From: Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Why I advise against using ivshmem
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:48:11 +0200
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Hello,

On 06/13/2014 11:26 AM, Vincent JARDIN wrote:
> ivhsmem does not require hugetlbfs. It is optional.
>
>  > * it doesn't require ivshmem (it does require shared memory, which
>  > will also be added to 2.1)

Right, hugetlbfs is not required. A posix shared memory or tmpfs
can be used instead. For instance, to use /dev/shm/foobar:

   qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host [...] \
      -device ivshmem,size=16,shm=foobar


Regards,
Olivier