On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:42 PM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I recently noticed that we have quite a bunch of tickets against the vmxnet3 > device in our bug trackers, which indicate that this device could be used to > crash QEMU in various ways: > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues?state=opened&search=vmxnet3 > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu?field.searchtext=vmxnet3 > > Having hardly any knowledge about this device and its usage at all, I wonder > how much it is still used out there in the wild?
I guess it might have been used for virt-v2v in the past. But I'm not sure what's the status now. Thanks > If there are still many > users of this device, is there anybody interested here in helping to get > these crashes fixed in the near future? Otherwise, should we maybe rather > mark this device as deprecated and remove it in a couple of releases? What > do you think? > > Thomas >
