* Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> [2017-07-28 14:58:19 +0200]: [...]
> > > > If I understand you correctly it ain't possible to handle these > > in the host (and let the guest a simple 'non-real' virtual > > channel path whose reliability depends on what the host does), > > or? > > It is possible. Mapping to a virtual channel path or not is basically a > design decision (IIRC, z/VM supports both). > > Mapping everything to a virtual chpid basically concentrates all > path-related handling in the hypervisor. This allows for a dumb guest > OS, but can make errors really hard to debug from the guest side. I understood this. > > Exposing real channel paths to the guest means that the guest OS needs > to be able to deal with path-related things, but OTOH it has more > control. As I don't think we'll ever want to support a guest OS that > does not also run under LPAR, I'd prefer that way. > My poor English... Sorry, I don't undersatnd the last sentence... [...] -- Dong Jia Shi
