Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Marcel Apfelbaum
On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 16:45 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 11.08.2013 12:33, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: > >>> The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running > >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 04:45:03PM +0200, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 11.08.2013 12:33, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > >> On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: > >>> The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs runnin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Andreas Färber
Am 11.08.2013 12:33, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin: > On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: >>> The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running >>> operating systems without a driver for this device will have probl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-11 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 10:27:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: > >The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running > >operating systems without a driver for this device will have problems > >when qemu will be upgraded (from qemu without t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-02 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 08/02/2013 09:04 AM, Hu Tao wrote: The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running operating systems without a driver for this device will have problems when qemu will be upgraded (from qemu without this pvpanic). The outcome may be, for example: in Windows(let's say XP)

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.6 1/2] don't create pvpanic device by default.

2013-08-02 Thread Hu Tao
The problem with pvpanic being an internal device is that VMs running operating systems without a driver for this device will have problems when qemu will be upgraded (from qemu without this pvpanic). The outcome may be, for example: in Windows(let's say XP) the Device manager will open a "new dev