Re: [Qemu-devel] live migration vs device assignment (motivation)

2015-12-27 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 02:31:14PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > The PCI hot-plug specification calls out that the OS can optionally > implement a "pause" mechanism which is meant to be used for high > availability type environments. What I am proposing is basically > extending the standard SHPC

Re: [Qemu-devel] live migration vs device assignment (motivation)

2015-12-27 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 02:31:14PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: >> The PCI hot-plug specification calls out that the OS can optionally >> implement a "pause" mechanism which is meant to be used for high >> availability type environments

How to reserve guest physical region for ACPI

2015-12-27 Thread Xiao Guangrong
Hi Michael, Paolo, Now it is the time to return to the challenge that how to reserve guest physical region internally used by ACPI. Igor suggested that: | An alternative place to allocate reserve from could be high memory. | For pc we have "reserved-memory-end" which currently makes sure | that

RE: [Qemu-devel] live migration vs device assignment (motivation)

2015-12-27 Thread Dong, Eddie
> > > > Even if the device driver doesn't support migration, you still want to > > migrate VM? That maybe risk and we should add the "bad path" for the > > driver at least. > > At a minimum we should have support for hot-plug if we are expecting to > support migration. You would simply have to ho

Re: [Qemu-devel] live migration vs device assignment (motivation)

2015-12-27 Thread Alexander Duyck
On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Dong, Eddie wrote: >> > >> > Even if the device driver doesn't support migration, you still want to >> > migrate VM? That maybe risk and we should add the "bad path" for the >> > driver at least. >> >> At a minimum we should have support for hot-plug if we are expe