On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:47:07 +0300 Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/25/2012 11:26 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > On 2012-06-25 18:55, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > >> Allow for disabling memory merge support (KSM on Linux), which is > >> enabled by default otherwise. > > > > -machine mem_merge=on|off? > > It's a host property, not a guest property. > > For devices we have a pretty good separation, -device gives the guest > properties and -netdev/-blockdev gives the host properties. We should > either do the same for -machine, or mark host properties as such. For > example, when we migrate the qom forest, we shouldn't migrate host > properties, only guest properties. Can you be more specific on how you think we could do it? I can only think of having -host, then maybe the -mem options should be moved there too.
