Hi, > Why should this be true? Shouldn't we be allowed to increase the amount > of memory the guest has across reboots? That's equivalent to adding > another DIMM after power off.
poweroff is equivalent to exiting qemu, not to guest reset. > Not generating tables on reset does limit what we can do in a pretty > fundamental way. Even if you can argue it in the short term, I don't > think it's viable in the long term. I don't think so. The procedure for adding/removing non-hotpluggable hardware is: poweroff, plugin/-out hardware (change config in qemu), boot. Hotpluggable hardware doesn't need acpi table updates. cheers, Gerd