On 2016-08-01 14:18, Henning Schild wrote: > Am Sun, 31 Jul 2016 10:39:39 +0200 > schrieb Jan Kiszka <[email protected]>: > >> Besides config updates and some cleanups, this series comes with two >> major changes. >> >> The most user visible one is demanding VT-d support. QEMU 2.7 is >> currently in -rc and will deliver all features we need to run >> Jailhouse. Therefore, we can drop some special cases from the VT-d >> code by demanding VT-d support unconditionally. > > I would suggest keeping that code around for older qemus. Otherwise you > will force people interested in jailhouse to build their own qemu > because their distro does not ship 2.7 yet. And a careless "make > install" of qemu can mess with libvirt etc. and turn out to be a real > pain.
OTH, those you can't resolve those issues easily will already run into the trap that the shipped config doesn't correspond to their distro's QEMU version. And you don't need to install QEMU in order to use a self-built version. That's solved for many years. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RDA ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jailhouse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
