Jamie Lokier wrote: > Alexander Graf wrote: > >> Or we could put in some code that tells the guest the host shm >> architecture and only accept x86 on x86 for now. If anyone cares for >> other combinations, they're free to implement them. >> >> Seriously, we're looking at an interface designed for kvm here. Let's >> please keep it as simple and fast as possible for the actual use case, >> not some theoretically possible ones. >> > > The concern is that a perfectly working guest image running on kvm, > the guest being some OS or app that uses this facility (_not_ a > kvm-only guest driver), is later run on qemu on a different host, and > then mostly works except for some silent data corruption. > > That is not a theoretical scenario. > > Well, the bit with this driver is theoretical, obviously :-) > But not the bit about moving to a different host. > I agree. Hence there should be a safety check so people can't corrupt their data silently. Alex -- 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