On 01/25/2012 02:10 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > > >> Would a machine option > >> "kvm_shadow_memory=n" be desirable? > > > > Not sure, this is a host option, not a guest option. Machine options > > should be guest-visible. > > machine options are not guest visible. Basically, this options falls > into the same category as kernel_irqchip.
They should be. We should work hard to separate the guest ABI from everything else. Same as kvm-apic appearing in the qdev name. > Do we have alternatives? A top-level command line options is surely none. -kvm shadow-memory=n,... -accel kvm,shadow-memory=n,... -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
