On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 06:13 -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I think it's the right thing to do, but maybe not the right place > > to do this, need to reset after all IO is done, before > > ring memory is write protected. > > Our emails are crossing each other unfortunately, but I want to > reinforce this: ring memory is not write protected. Understood. However, AFAICT the act of write protecting these ranges for ROM generates the offending callbacks to vhost_set_memory(). The part that I'm missing is if ring memory is not being write protected by make_bios_readonly_intel(), why are the vhost_set_memory() calls being invoked..? > Remember that > SeaBIOS can even provide virtio-scsi access to DOS, so you must > not reset the device. It must remain functional all the time, > and the OS's own driver will reset it when it's started. > Mmmm, so a vp_reset() is out of the question then.. --nab -- 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