Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu: Add virtio pmem device

2018-04-05 Thread David Hildenbrand
>> >> So right now you're just using some memdev for testing. > > yes. > >> >> I assume that the memory region we will provide to the guest will be a >> simple memory mapped raw file. Dirty tracking (using the kvm slot) will >> be used to detect which blocks actually changed and have to be

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu: Add virtio pmem device

2018-04-05 Thread Pankaj Gupta
Hi David, > > This patch adds virtio-pmem Qemu device. > > > > This device configures memory address range information with file > > backend type. It acts like persistent memory device for KVM guest. > > It presents the memory address range to virtio-pmem driver over > > virtio channel and