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Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support |
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Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:52:12 -0700 |
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On 02/02/2016 07:05 AM, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>>
>> I'm not familiar enough with libvirt, nor the use of QMP, to really argue
>> one way or another, but I find it a bit strange that we'd prefer libvirt
>> to query two entities over one. And, why should the libvirt installed on
>> a particular host prefer gicv3 as the default, just because KVM supports
>> it, even when QEMU does not?
>
> I think the assumption here is that if you install a recent libvirt you
> also install a recent QEMU. You always have the risk of things not
> working if you have too old a QEMU, right?
Libvirt exists for providing back-compat glue. The following
combinations are supported:
old libvirt, old qemu
new libvirt, old qemu
new libvirt, new qemu
and it is only this combination that might require a libvirt upgrade to
work correctly:
old libvirt, new qemu
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Christoffer Dall, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Daniel P. Berrange, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Christoffer Dall, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Andrew Jones, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support,
Eric Blake <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Christoffer Dall, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Andrea Bolognani, 2016/02/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Andrea Bolognani, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Pavel Fedin, 2016/02/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] ARM KVM GICv3 Support, Peter Maydell, 2016/02/02