Il 27/05/2013 18:04, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
> I don't think we need a new feature. Hosts do not in practice
> treat the feature as "negative" (that is, required), whatever the spec
> says.  Further, windows guests don't treat it is such either.

Windows guests not treating as such is what makes the spec change work.

> So if we
> don't want to require all guests to tell host first, all we need to do is
> admit it's not a bug.

I think we want the possibility for the host to require that.

> Please see
>       [PATCH] virtio-spec: balloon: MUST_TELL_HOST is optional
> that does exactly this.

That patch mandates a change in guest behavior that is not compatible
with the existing Windows driver.  Mine doesn't.

Paolo
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