Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] docs: update ivshmem device spec

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 26/08/2014 08:47, David Marchand ha scritto:
> 
> Using a version message supposes we want to keep ivshmem-server and QEMU
> separated (for example, in two distribution packages) while we can avoid
> this, so why would we do so ?
> 
> If we want the ivshmem-server to come with QEMU, then both are supposed
> to be aligned on your system.

What about upgrading QEMU and ivshmem-server while you have existing
guests?  You cannot restart ivshmem-server, and the new QEMU would have
to talk to the old ivshmem-server.

Paolo

> If you want to test local modifications, then it means you know what you
> are doing and you will call the right ivshmem-server binary with the
> right QEMU binary.