[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v5 4/5] Inter-VM shared memory PCI device

[Avi Kivity]

On 05/12/2010 06:32 PM, Cam Macdonell wrote:
> > We can tunnel its migration data through qemu.  Of course, gathering its
> > dirty bitmap will be interesting.  DSM may be the way to go here (we can
> > even live migrate qemu through DSM: share the guest address space and
> > immediately start running on the destination node; the guest will fault its
> > memory to the destination.  An advantage is that that the cpu load is
> > immediately transferred.
> >
> >      
> Given the potential need to develop DSM and migrating multiple VMs
> simultaneously as well as few details to decide on, can the patch
> series (with other review tweaks fixed) be accepted without migration
> support?

Definitely.  I don't expect DSM to materialize tomorrow (or ever).

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