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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] x86/HVM: assume default ioreq servers
 follow new bufioreq pointer access model
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:20:29 +0100
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On 28/08/15 17:15, Jan Beulich wrote:
> There's no way for Xen to know or for such a qemu to tell us.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
> ---
> RFC: This implies only patched qemu-trad or ioreq-server-aware
>      qemu-upstream get used with xen-unstable. Is this reasonable?

Patched qemu-trad, yes, as it comes from the same source.

Much less certain about qemu-upstream.  There is deliberate support to
use a distro provided qemu-upstream as opposed to a xen provided one.

~Andrew