On 09/13/2012 06:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> >>>> This may not work for really old server oriented guests. >>> >>> S3 requires guest cooperation, period. But so does qemu-ga. It's >>> better than nothing, and we can't get perfection without guest cooperation. >> >> qemu-ga requires either an admin/tool to install qemu-ga, or for qemu-ga >> to be preinstalled by the OS vendor. S3 requires S3 support to be >> provided by the host vendor, and for it to be functional. A >> significantly easier bar to clear. > > We can easily generate an ISO that includes a pre-built version of > qemu-ga.
We could easily generate water, but we can't make the horse drink it. > > Plus, there's a whole variety of other features enabled once we can > assume qemu-ga is available. It's worth solving that problem. We can't assume it. Too many OSes exist, too many guests are already exist and ain't broken, too many vendors are moving into a locked-down model. I agree it's great and we should take advantage of it, but we can't assume it's there. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
