On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:37:44 +0200 Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/2015 11:07, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > > Paolo said this specific feature has been deprecated for years, no > > > one should be using it, so we dropped it from spec. > > > > Nothing wrong with that. But "it's deprecated" does not mean "nobody's > > using it", I fear. The question is: Should qemu accommodate those users? > > "It's deprecated" does mean (or at least can mean) "it's going to go > away in relatively exceptional circumstances". virtio 1 counts as > relatively exceptional, I think. OK, if the consensus is "you should not be using it; but if you really need it, you can get it back with a config switch", I won't oppose that.
