[Lguest] [kvm-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] Inter-guest virtio I/O example with lguest

[Rusty Russell]

On Friday 21 March 2008 01:11:35 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> >    There are three possible solutions:
> > 1) Just offer the lowest common denominator to both sides (ie. no
> > features). This is what I do with lguest in these patches.
> > 2) Offer something and handle the case where one Guest accepts and
> > another doesn't by emulating it.  ie. de-TSO the packets manually.
> > 3) "Hot unplug" the device from the guest which asks for the greater
> > features, then re-add it offering less features.  Requires hotplug in the
> > guest OS.
>
> 4) Add a feature negotiation feature.  The feature that gets set is the
> "feature negotiate" feature.  If a guest doesn't support feature
> negotiation, you end up with the least-common denominator (no
> features).  If both guests support feature negotiation, you can then add
> something new to determine the true common subset.

Hmm, I discarded that out of hand as too icky, but we might end up there.  
Analyse features like normal, accept feature negotiation, set DRIVER_OK, wait 
for config change, if feature negotiation is still set then go around again 
(presumably some features have been removed).

I'll prototype it and see how we go.

Thanks,
Rusty.