Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753248AbYJDIyP (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:54:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752104AbYJDIx6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:53:58 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:59886 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751939AbYJDIx5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:53:57 -0400 Message-ID: <48E72EFF.5040101@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:53:19 +0300 From: Avi Kivity User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Nakajima, Jun" CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , "akataria@vmware.com" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Rusty Russell , Gerd Hoffmann , Ingo Molnar , the arch/x86 maintainers , LKML , Daniel Hecht , Zach Amsden , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [RFC] CPUID usage for interaction between Hypervisors and Linux. References: <1222881242.9381.17.camel@alok-dev1> <48E3B19D.6060905@zytor.com> <1222882431.9381.23.camel@alok-dev1> <48E3BC21.4080803@goop.org> <1222895153.9381.69.camel@alok-dev1> <48E3FDD5.7040106@zytor.com> <0B53E02A2965CE4F9ADB38B34501A3A15D927EA4@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <48E422CA.2010606@zytor.com> <0B53E02A2965CE4F9ADB38B34501A3A15DCBA221@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> <48E6AB15.8060405@zytor.com> <0B53E02A2965CE4F9ADB38B34501A3A15DCBA325@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <0B53E02A2965CE4F9ADB38B34501A3A15DCBA325@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 16 Nakajima, Jun wrote: > What's the significance of supporting multiple interfaces to the same guest simultaneously, i.e. _runtime_? We don't want the guests to run on such a literarily Frankenstein machine. And practically, such testing/debugging would be good only for Halloween :-). > > If you can only expose one interface, you need to have the user choose. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/