Il 29/04/2013 20:23, Jordan Justen ha scritto: > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Il 28/04/2013 10:32, Jordan Justen ha scritto: >>> Now KVM can support a flash memory. This feature depends on >>> KVM_CAP_READONLY_MEM, which was introduced in Linux 3.7. >> >> I don't think we can require such a new kernel to run KVM. IIUC, an >> older kernel would just fail to start, right? > > Would it also be unacceptable to alter the behavior based on the kvm > capabilities? So, we can't use rom-mode for old kvm, but flash mode > for new kvm? (In other words, behave similarly to qemu 1.2-1.4 in kvm > vs. non-kvm mode.)
No, unfortunately the host versions must not affect the hardware. Paolo
