From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfF0-0002Ut-2F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:26 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfEw-0002Uh-MX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:24 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGfEw-0002Ue-H9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:22 -0500 Received: from mail.codesourcery.com ([65.74.133.4]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGfEv-0007bl-Vv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:45:22 -0500 From: Paul Brook Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Two quick requests. Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:45:18 +0000 References: <200702091719.16429.rob@landley.net> <200702092306.25097.paul@codesourcery.com> <200702121227.47557.rob@landley.net> In-Reply-To: <200702121227.47557.rob@landley.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702121745.19103.paul@codesourcery.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Rob Landley Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org > > If you really want to do this, do it properly. Make it an error to use a > > ro image if the user [implicitly] requests rw access. > > If there's no middle ground between "silently misbehave" and "refuse to > start if anything _might_ be wrong", then why does current qemu warn about > the 1024 hz thing? Even at 1024Hz qemu still misbehaves, especially on heavily loaded hosts. 1024Hz is sufficient for most common operating systems most of the time, but many will run happily without it. e.g. many linux kernels only need 100 or 250Hz. Paul