Re: [Qemu-devel] Guest kernel device compatability auto-detection

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:08:02AM +0300, Sasha Levin wrote:
> You're thinking about trying to expose all interfaces during boot and
> seeing which ones the kernel bites?

No, that's a bad idea.  A current guest would register that as two
disks.  It might even try to write to them independently.

You need an IDE device which can be promoted to virtio at the request
of the guest (so you know the guest understands this type of device).

> Another thing that comes to mind is that we could start this project
> with a script that given a kernel, it would find the optimal hardware
> configuration for it (and the matching QEMU command line).

It would be better if the guest could communicate what it needs.  But
no current guest works that way.

Rich.

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