Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/21] Kemari for KVM 0.2

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> One question I have about Kemari is whether it adds new constraints to
> the QEMU codebase?  Fault tolerance seems like a cross-cutting concern
> - everyone writing device emulation or core QEMU code may need to be
> aware of new constraints.  For example, "you are not allowed to
> release I/O operations to the outside world directly, instead you need
> to go through Kemari code which makes I/O transactional and
> communicates with the passive host".  You have converted e1000,
> virtio-net, and virtio-blk.  How do we make sure new devices that are
> merged into qemu.git don't break Kemari?  How do we go about
> supporting the existing hw/* devices?

IMO anything that requires devices to act differently is wrong.  All external 
IO already goes though a common API (e.g. qemu_send_packet). You should be 
putting your transaction code there, not hacking individual devices.

Paul
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