Re: [PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 7/21/21 3:45 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: >> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: >>> * Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote: The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO networking card without disrupting the netwo

Re: [PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Juan Quintela
Laurent Vivier wrote: > The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO > networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching > to a virtio-net device during the migration. > > This simple change allows to test failover with a simulated device > like e1000e rather

Re: [PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: > > * Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote: > >> The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO > >> networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching > >> to a virtio-net device

Re: [PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Juan Quintela
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: > * Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote: >> The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO >> networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching >> to a virtio-net device during the migration. >> >> This simple change allows

Re: [PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Laurent Vivier
On 21/07/2021 13:10, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote: >> The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO >> networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching >> to a virtio-net device during the migration. >> >> This sim

Re: [PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Laurent Vivier (lviv...@redhat.com) wrote: > The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO > networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching > to a virtio-net device during the migration. > > This simple change allows to test failover with a simulated devic

[PATCH v3] failover: unregister ROM on unplug

2021-07-21 Thread Laurent Vivier
The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching to a virtio-net device during the migration. This simple change allows to test failover with a simulated device like e1000e rather than a vfio device, even if it's u