On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:21:52AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > If you see a mouse in a room, how likely is it that there's > > a single mouse there? > > > > This is a PV technology which to me looks like it was > > rushed through and not only set on by default, but > > without a way to disable it - apparently on the assumption > > there's 0 chance it can cause any damage. Now that > > we do know the chance it's not there, why not go back > > to the standard interface, and why not give > > users a chance to enable/disable it? > You should be able to disable it with: -device pvpanic,ioport=0
Doesn't work for me. Besides, both -device pvpanic and use of ioport=0 to disable it are completely undocumented. BTW pls keep qemu-devel Cc'd. > We have different definition of "damage" though. Driver bugs, qemu bugs, OSPM bugs all can cause issues like OS crashes, suspend/resume issues, bad performance ... What's your definition of damage? -- MST
