Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-30 Thread Cam Macdonell
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking to implement an ivshmem device for KVM tools, the purpose > is to provide same functionality as QEMU and interoperability with QEMU. > > Going through the spec (I found here: > https://gitorious.org/nahanni/guest-code/bl

Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-29 Thread Cam Macdonell
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:29 +0300, Sasha Levin wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am looking to implement an ivshmem device for KVM tools, the purpose >> is to provide same functionality as QEMU and interoperability with QEMU. > > [snip] > >> 1. File han

Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-29 Thread Sasha Levin
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 16:29 +0300, Sasha Levin wrote: > Hello, > > I am looking to implement an ivshmem device for KVM tools, the purpose > is to provide same functionality as QEMU and interoperability with QEMU. [snip] > 1. File handles and guest IDs are passed between the server and the > peer

Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-25 Thread Sasha Levin
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:40 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/25/2011 05:39 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:00 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > > On 08/25/2011 04:29 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > > 2. The spec describes DOORBELL as an array of DWORDs, when one guest > > > > wants

Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-25 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/25/2011 05:39 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:00 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/25/2011 04:29 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > 2. The spec describes DOORBELL as an array of DWORDs, when one guest > > wants to poke a different guest it would write something into the offset >

Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-25 Thread Sasha Levin
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 17:00 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 08/25/2011 04:29 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: > > 2. The spec describes DOORBELL as an array of DWORDs, when one guest > > wants to poke a different guest it would write something into the offset > > of the other guest in the DOORBELL array. > > L

Re: [Qemu-devel] Questions regarding ivshmem spec

2011-08-25 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/25/2011 04:29 PM, Sasha Levin wrote: 2. The spec describes DOORBELL as an array of DWORDs, when one guest wants to poke a different guest it would write something into the offset of the other guest in the DOORBELL array. Looking at the implementation in QEMU, DOORBELL is one DWORD, when wri