Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Use of unique identifier for pairing virtio and passthrough devices...

[Roman Kagan]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 03:54:06PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> If we want to extend that to other device types, we can add the field
> in their config space; but I'd rather prefer a more generic "host
> relays config metainformation" approach.

The problem with this approach is that it's too generic and poorly
scoped.  As a result I guess it's likely to take ages to converge.

See for instance the discussion on including vm config metadata in qcow2
images: I think it's similar in scope (or the absense thereof).

Roman.