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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Don Slutz" <dslutz@verizon.com>,
	"Luiz Capitulino" <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Richard Henderson" <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] Add limited support of VMware's hyper-call rpc
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:29:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150617162836-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558183C1.3010402@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 04:27:13PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 17/06/2015 16:18, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> > Yes, that's what was done for parallel and pcspk as well.  There's no
> >> > infrastructure to avoid it.
> >> > 
> >> > Paolo
> > How do you mean? We have multiple ways to keep devices
> > compatible with old versions.
> > Set a new property to skip the extra stuff.
> 
> Not if the device didn't have a vmstate at all, unfortunately.

?
Skip creating the device completely for old machine types.

> > Since we enable this thing by default (why do we?)
> > this seems like a big deal ...
> 
> The PC speaker device is also enabled by default.
> 
> Paolo

This is historical, isn't it?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-17 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-12 14:05 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] Add limited support of VMware's hyper-call rpc Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [BUGFIX][PATCH v7 1/9] vmport: The io memory region needs to be at least a size of 4 Don Slutz
2015-06-12 22:38   ` Eric Blake
2015-06-15 13:53     ` Don Slutz
2015-06-15 15:09       ` Eric Blake
2015-06-15 16:15         ` Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 2/9] vmport: Switch to trace Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [BUGFIX][PATCH v7 3/9] vmport: Fix vmport_cmd_ram_size Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 4/9] vmport_rpc: Add the object vmport_rpc Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 5/9] vmport_rpc: Add limited support of VMware's hyper-call rpc Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 6/9] vmport_rpc: Add QMP access to vmport_rpc object Don Slutz
2015-06-15 15:53   ` Eric Blake
2015-06-17 16:42     ` Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 7/9] vmport_rpc: Add migration Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 8/9] vmport: Add VMware all ring hack Don Slutz
2015-06-12 14:05 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 9/9] MAINTAINERS: add VMware port Don Slutz
2015-06-17 13:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] Add limited support of VMware's hyper-call rpc Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 22:26   ` Don Slutz
2015-06-18  7:58     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18  8:33       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-18  9:40         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18  8:33     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 14:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 14:13   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 14:18     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 14:27       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 14:29         ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-06-17 16:17           ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 16:29             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:48               ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 18:43                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 19:15                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 19:22                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 19:24                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 19:29                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 17:03               ` Don Slutz
2015-06-17 17:14                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 17:25                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 17:34                     ` Don Slutz
2015-06-17 18:58                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18 18:40                         ` Don Slutz
2015-06-17 18:45                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 18:45                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-18  7:03             ` Gerd Hoffmann

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