Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> writes: > 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.
All the same can be said about virtio yet we still add features that depend on it. If there was a better/equivalent solution that didn't depend on qemu-ga, I'd be all for it. But there isn't AFAICT. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > -- > error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
