Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2 4/9] provide in-kernel apic

[Jamie Lokier]

Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:06:41AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Glauber Costa wrote:
> > > > It ensures the two models are compatible.  Since they're the same 
> > > > device  
> > > > from the point of view of the guest, there's no reason for them to have 
> > > >  
> > > > different representations or to be incompatible.
> > > 
> > > live migration between something that has in-kernel irqchip and
> > > something that has not is likely to be a completely untested
> > > thing. And this is the only reason we might think of it as the same
> > > device. I don't see any value in supporting this combination
> > 
> > Not just live migration.  ACPI sleep + savevm + loadvm + ACPI resume,
> > for example.
> Yes, but in this case too, I'd expect the irqchipness of qemu not to change.

If I've just been sent an image produced by someone running KVM, and
my machine is not KVM-capable, or I cannot upgrade the KVM kernel
module because it's in use by other VMs (had this problem a few
times), there's no choice but to change the irqchipness.

-- Jamie