Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-02 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 01/04/14 16:47, Christian Borntraeger wrote: We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for the VM and we need to do more complex actions) can provide. Instead of adding several s390 specific ioctls, lets provide a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-02 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 02/04/14 10:39, Alexander Graf wrote: On 02.04.14 10:31, Christian Borntraeger wrote: On 01/04/14 16:47, Christian Borntraeger wrote: We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for the VM and we need to do more

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 02.04.14 10:31, Christian Borntraeger wrote: On 01/04/14 16:47, Christian Borntraeger wrote: We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for the VM and we need to do more complex actions) can provide. Instead of adding

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-01 Thread Christian Borntraeger
We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for the VM and we need to do more complex actions) can provide. Instead of adding several s390 specific ioctls, lets provide a configuration and control device that encapsulates

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-01 Thread Alexander Graf
On 04/01/2014 04:47 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for the VM and we need to do more complex actions) can provide. Instead of adding several s390 specific ioctls, lets provide a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-01 Thread Christian Borntraeger
On 01/04/14 16:59, Alexander Graf wrote: On 04/01/2014 04:47 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for the VM and we need to do more complex actions) can provide. Instead of adding

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC] s390: Provide a configuration and control device

2014-04-01 Thread Alexander Graf
On 01.04.2014, at 21:23, Christian Borntraeger borntrae...@de.ibm.com wrote: On 01/04/14 16:59, Alexander Graf wrote: On 04/01/2014 04:47 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote: We want to configure several things in KVM that go beyond what ENABLE_CAP (we need payload) or ONE_REG (we need it for