From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37573) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5EJI-0004RT-Tw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:27:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5EJE-0005AE-84 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:27:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z5EJE-00059g-3L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:27:20 -0400 Message-ID: <558183C1.3010402@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:27:13 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1434117956-4929-1-git-send-email-dslutz@verizon.com> <20150617160826-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <558180A0.8040708@redhat.com> <20150617161716-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150617161716-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] Add limited support of VMware's hyper-call rpc List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Markus Armbruster , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Don Slutz , Luiz Capitulino , Anthony Liguori , =?windows-1252?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= , Richard Henderson 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. > 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