[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] deprecate -mem-path fallback to anonymous RAM

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 07:41:16AM -0400, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> Fallback might affect guest or worse whole host performance
> or functionality if backing file were used to share guest RAM
> with another process.
> 
> Patch deprecates fallback so that we could remove it in future
> and ensure that QEMU will provide expected behavior and fail if
> it can't use user provided backing file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo at redhat.com>
> ---
> PS:
> Patch is written on top of
>   [PATCH v4 0/3] numa: deprecate '-numa node,  mem' and default memory distribution
> to avoid conflicts in qemu-deprecated.texi
> 
>  numa.c               | 4 ++--
>  qemu-deprecated.texi | 8 ++++++++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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