Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [Also for STABLE-0.12] Don't check for bus master for old guests

2010-03-31 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 03/16/2010 01:18 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: Older Linux guests don't activate the bus master enable bit. So for those we can just try to be clever and track if they set the DEVICE_OK bit even though bus mastering is still disabled. Under that condition we can disable the windows safety check.

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [Also for STABLE-0.12] Don't check for bus master for old guests

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Graf
Older Linux guests don't activate the bus master enable bit. So for those we can just try to be clever and track if they set the DEVICE_OK bit even though bus mastering is still disabled. Under that condition we can disable the windows safety check. With that logic in place both guests should

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [Also for STABLE-0.12] Don't check for bus master for old guests

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Graf
Older Linux guests don't activate the bus master enable bit. So for those we can just try to be clever and track if they set the DEVICE_OK bit even though bus mastering is still disabled. Under that condition we can disable the windows safety check. With that logic in place both guests should