Re: [PATCH 00/19] qemu-kvm: Cleanup and switch to upstream - Part I

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On 2011-05-05 10:22, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/04/2011 10:43 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> All required bits for this cleanup of qemu-kvm are now upstream and
>> merged back - it's time to start the show. There are now 65 patches in
>> my queue, and I'm planning for at least 4 rounds.
>>
>> This first part primarily aims at using upstream kvm_arch_init. Further
>> highlights are:
>>   - switch to upstream CPU register get/put
>>   - switch to upstream kvmclock
>>   - sustainable breakage of IA64
>>
>> Please review/merge.
>>
> 
> I didn't do a line-by-line review, just a general look around, and it
> all looks good except for the MSR behavioural change.
> 
> How did you test it?

Running various VMs, mostly Linux (including vmmouse support) but also
some XP guests. I'm using the whole series for internal purposes for a
few months now (frequently rebased). So I have a quite good feeling
about it, except for the unknown corner cases. :)

>  I suggest testing at least vmport in addition to
> an autotest run (if you don't have a setup ready, we can do it, but it
> would be really helpful to test pre-merge).  I guess we can expect a few
> regressions but if we're too careful this mess will continue forever.

I would be happy to off-load the full autotest run to $someone_else.
Will jump in again if it fails.

Jan

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