On 05/25/2010 08:31 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
A protocol based mechanism has the advantage of being more robust in
the face of poorly written block backends so if it's possible to
make it perform as well as a plugin, it's a preferable approach.
May be hard due to difficulty of exposing guest memory.
If someone did a series to add plugins, I would expect a very strong
argument as to why a shared memory mechanism was not possible or at
least plausible.
I'm not sure I understand why shared memory is such a bad thing wrt
KVM. Can you elaborate? Is it simply a matter of fork()?