[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] tap: mark fd handler as device

[Anthony Liguori]

On 11/15/2010 08:52 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin"<address@hidden>  wrote:
>    
> > There's no reason for tap to run when VM is stopped.
> > If we let it, it confuses the bridge on TX
> > and corrupts DMA memory on RX.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin<address@hidden>
> >      
> once here, what handlers make sense to run while stopped?
> /me can think of the normal console, non live migration, loadvm and not
> much more.  Perhaps it is easier to just move the other way around?
>    

I'm not sure I concur that this is really a problem.

Semantically, I don't think that stop has to imply that the guest memory 
no longer changes.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Later, Juan.
>