On 23/07/2015 11:07, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > Paolo said this specific feature has been deprecated for years, no > > one should be using it, so we dropped it from spec. > > Nothing wrong with that. But "it's deprecated" does not mean "nobody's > using it", I fear. The question is: Should qemu accommodate those users?
"It's deprecated" does mean (or at least can mean) "it's going to go away in relatively exceptional circumstances". virtio 1 counts as relatively exceptional, I think. Paolo