Avi Kivity wrote: > On 09/23/2009 10:37 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: >> >> Example: feature negotiation. If it happens in userspace, it's easy >> to limit what features we expose to the guest. If it happens in the >> kernel, we need to add an interface to let the kernel know which >> features it should expose to the guest. We also need to add an >> interface to let userspace know which features were negotiated, if we >> want to implement live migration. Something fairly trivial bloats >> rapidly. > > btw, we have this issue with kvm reporting cpuid bits to the guest. > Instead of letting kvm talk directly to the hardware and the guest, kvm > gets the cpuid bits from the hardware, strips away features it doesn't > support, exposes that to userspace, and expects userspace to program the > cpuid bits it wants to expose to the guest (which may be different than > what kvm exposed to userspace, and different from guest to guest). >
This issue doesn't exist in the model I am referring to, as these are all virtual-devices anyway. See my last reply -Greg
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