On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:59 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:43:29AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > = Solution - Separate configuration from compat hints = > > > > As I suggested before: > > > > - Allow the VM manager to dump compat hints; this would be an opaque > > file format, more like the savevm format than a config file > > Why make it "like the savevm" format then? > If they are opaque anyway, compat hints could be part of savevm format. So a "savevm --only-compat-hints" command? It might make sense, since we would want the compat hints with savevm too. > > - Use defaults where compat hints are not available; e.g. if the VM > > manager specifies a device config, but no compat hints are > > supplied for it, then just use default values > > > > - Make the config override compat hints; e.g. if there are compat > > hints specified for a device not included in the machine config, > > just ignore those hints > > > > Cheers, > > Mark. > > If compat hints are opaque and only editable by qemu, we can get into a > situation where one can't create a specific setup with a new qemu. An example? Cheers, Mark. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
