* Anthony Liguori (anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 05/19/2010 04:10 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > >* Anthony Liguori (anthony@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >>An fd as a qdev property seems like a bad idea to me. > >What is your concern? > > qdev properties are supposed to represent device tunables. A file > descriptor is not a tunable. It tunes which config file to read from ;-) > It's like passing the tap device fd via qdev to an e1000. > > >>I'm not sure I have a better suggestion though. > >Anything else requires inventing some new commandline options and monitor > >comnmands (-pcidevice anyone? ;-). I'm not sure the benefit, esp with > >hopes of moving to uio. > > Yeah, I think device passthrough is going to require new command > line syntax to be more qemu friendly... Right, and I think we should do that in the context of redoing the infrastructure. What do you think? thanks, -chris -- 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
