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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
	"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@gmail.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Vincent JARDIN" <vincent.jardin@6wind.com>
Cc: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>,
	Olivier MATZ <olivier.matz@6wind.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Linux Virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"thomas.monjalon@6wind.com" <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Why I advise against using ivshmem
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 10:25:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A29E7A.9030106__8014.35996913842$1404408033$gmane$org@6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A1A9D9.6010908@suse.de>

On 06/18/2014 05:01 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> late onto this thread: SUSE Security team has just recently
> done a thorough review of QEMU ivshmem code because a customer has
> requested this be supported in SLES12. Multiple security-related
> patches were submitted by Stefan Hajnoczi and Sebastian Krahmer, and I
> fear they are probably still not merged for lack of active
> maintainer... In such cases, after review, I expect them to be picked
> up by Peter as committer or via qemu-trivial.
>
> So -1, against dropping it.

Are these patches on patchwork ?

> Vincent, you will find an RFC for an ivshmem-test in the qemu-devel
> list archives or possibly on my qtest branch. The blocking issue that
> I haven't worked on yet is that we can't unconditionally run the qtest
> because it depends on KVM enabled at configure time (as opposed to
> runtime) to have the device available.
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/336367/
>
> As others have stated before, the nahanni server seems unmaintained,
> thus not getting packaged by SUSE either and making testing the
> interrupt parts of ivshmem difficult - unless we sort out and fill
> with actual test code my proposed qtest.

Thanks for the RFC patch.

About ivshmem server, yes I will look at it.
I will see what I can propose or if importing nahanni implementation 
as-is is the best solution.

Anyway, first, documentation.


-- 
David Marchand

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-19  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 91+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-10 16:48 Using virtio for inter-VM communication Henning Schild
2014-06-10 16:48 ` [Qemu-devel] " Henning Schild
2014-06-10 22:15 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-10 22:15 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-10 22:15   ` [Qemu-devel] " Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12  6:48   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12  6:48   ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12  6:48     ` [Qemu-devel] " Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12  7:44     ` Henning Schild
2014-06-12  7:44       ` [Qemu-devel] " Henning Schild
2014-06-12  9:31       ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12  9:31       ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12  9:31         ` [Qemu-devel] " Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12 12:55       ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12 14:40       ` Why I advise against using ivshmem (was: [Qemu-devel] Using virtio for inter-VM communication) Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12 14:40       ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12 14:40         ` [Qemu-devel] Why I advise against using ivshmem (was: " Markus Armbruster
2014-06-12 16:02         ` Why I advise against using ivshmem Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12 16:02           ` [Qemu-devel] " Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12 16:54           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12 16:54             ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-13  8:46           ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-13  9:26             ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-13  9:31               ` Jobin Raju George
2014-06-13  9:31                 ` Jobin Raju George
2014-06-13  9:31               ` Jobin Raju George
2014-06-13  9:48               ` Olivier MATZ
2014-06-13  9:48               ` Olivier MATZ
2014-06-13  9:48                 ` Olivier MATZ
2014-06-13 10:09               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-13 13:41                 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-13 13:41                 ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-13 13:41                   ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-13 14:10                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-13 14:10                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-14 18:01                     ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-14 18:01                       ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-17  2:54                     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-17  9:03                       ` David Marchand
2014-06-17  9:03                         ` David Marchand
2014-06-17  9:44                         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-18 10:48                           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-18 10:48                             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-18 14:57                             ` David Marchand
2014-06-18 14:57                             ` David Marchand
2014-06-18 14:57                               ` David Marchand
2014-06-18 15:10                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-21  9:34                               ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-26 20:02                                 ` Cam Macdonell
2014-06-26 20:02                                   ` Cam Macdonell
2014-06-18 15:01                             ` Andreas Färber
2014-06-18 15:01                               ` Andreas Färber
2014-06-19  8:25                               ` David Marchand
2014-06-19  8:25                                 ` David Marchand
2014-06-19  8:25                               ` David Marchand [this message]
2014-06-18 15:01                             ` Andreas Färber
2014-06-30 11:10                             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-30 11:10                             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-30 11:10                               ` Markus Armbruster
2014-06-18 10:51                         ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-18 10:51                           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2014-06-18 14:58                           ` David Marchand
2014-06-18 14:58                           ` David Marchand
2014-06-18 14:58                             ` David Marchand
2014-06-18 14:22                         ` Claudio Fontana
2014-06-17  9:03                       ` David Marchand
2014-06-13  9:29             ` Jobin Raju George
2014-06-13  9:29               ` [Qemu-devel] " Jobin Raju George
2014-06-13  9:29             ` Jobin Raju George
2014-06-12 16:02         ` Vincent JARDIN
2014-06-12  2:27 ` Using virtio for inter-VM communication Rusty Russell
2014-06-12  2:27   ` Rusty Russell
2014-06-12  2:27   ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2014-06-12  5:32   ` Jan Kiszka
2014-06-12  5:32     ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2014-06-13  0:47     ` Rusty Russell
2014-06-13  0:47       ` [Qemu-devel] " Rusty Russell
2014-06-13  6:23       ` Jan Kiszka
2014-06-13  6:23         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2014-06-13  8:45         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-13  8:45           ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-15  6:20           ` Jan Kiszka
2014-06-15  6:20           ` Jan Kiszka
2014-06-15  6:20             ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2014-06-17  5:24             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17  5:24               ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-17  5:57               ` Jan Kiszka
2014-06-17  5:57               ` Jan Kiszka
2014-06-17  5:57                 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2014-06-17  5:24             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-12  5:32   ` Jan Kiszka

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