Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file

2008-05-15 Thread Ian Jackson
andrzej zaborowski writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a configuration file"): > What I'd love, though, but expect others will consider bloat, is that > files are passed through cpp before interpreting. cpp is a terrible preprocessor. It mostly works for C source code (although

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: fsync AIO writes on flush request

2008-03-28 Thread Ian Jackson
Marcelo Tosatti writes ("[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QEMU: fsync AIO writes on flush request "): > Its necessary to guarantee that pending AIO writes have reached stable > storage when the flush request returns. Surely it isn't necessary to call qemu_aio_flush ? Because those pending AIO writes have no

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Use correct types to enable > 2G support

2008-02-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Fabrice Bellard writes ("[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Use correct types to enable > 2G support"): > Paul Brook wrote: If we ever implement >2G ram on a 32-bit host this > > may need some rethinking. We can deal with that if/when it > > happens though. Requiring a 64-bit host for large quantities

Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/6] Use correct types to enable > 2G support

2008-02-01 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Liguori writes ("[Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/6] Use correct types to enable > 2G support"): > The alternative is to change all the places that assume phys_ram_base + > PA which I don't like very much. We would ideally like to do this for Xen, at least in the places we care abou