Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 0/9] Add limited support of VMware's hyper-call rpc

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 17/06/2015 20:43, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> It seems pretty obvious:
> 
> +        vmport_rpc = isa_try_create(isa_bus, "vmport_rpc");
> +        if (vmport_rpc) {
> +            qdev_init_nofail(DEVICE(vmport_rpc));
> +        }
> 
> 
> Don't do this. Let user specify the device using -device vmport_rpc.
> Then all issues just go away.  I don't see any reason not to do it like
> this - we should have done the same for other vmport things.

Does it make sense to have an ISA device that has no ports or MMIO
regions?  It's a bit of hack modeling-wise, but sure it works.

Paolo