On 10/03/2020 13:22, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 01:13:21PM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
On 10/03/2020 11:34, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 01:54:04AM +0200, Liran Alon wrote:
This is VMware documented functionallity that some guests rely on.
Returns the BIOS UUID of the current virtual machine.
Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshche...@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.a...@oracle.com>
So this at least seems guest-visible.
So I suspect you need to add properties to
disable this for old machine types, to avoid
breaking compatibility with live-migration.
It is indeed guest visible.
In theory, you are right that for every guest-visible change, we should make
sure to expose it to only new machine-types.
However, in this case, I feel it just unnecessary over-complicates the code.
I don't see how a guest which previously failed to use this command, will
fail because after Live-Migration it could succeed.
The reverse can happen, start guest on a new qemu, command seems to
work, then we migrate and it fails.
And I guess this applies to the version right?
If you insist, I will add such functionality. In that case, do you think a
single flag will suffice for the addition of all new commands
(i.e. "commands-version" that it's number specifies set of commands to
expose), or you want to have a per-command flag?
-Liran
Can be a single flag but I'd just do it a boolean that enables a group
of commands. E.g. "commands-v2".
Re-thinking about this...
QEMU VMPort interface was quite broken already (See first patch in
series "hw/i386/vmport: Propagate IOPort read to vCPU EAX register").
The introduction of that fix already changes the result of all existing
commands from guest perspective which relied on return-value from
vmport_ioport_read().
E.g. CMD_GETVERSION and CMD_GETRAMSIZE.
In theory, we should have also made that bug-fix be tied to
machine-type. To similarly avoid the issue of migrating a VM from a
working VMPort command implementation to a non-working one.
i.e. In case of migrating from new QEMU to old QEMU. Do we wish to
create a property-flag for that fix as-well? Or can we just drop all the
machine-type flags alltogether (Including the suggested "commands-v2")
and declare this the first actually working VMPort implementation?
-Liran
