Re: Is QEMU's vmxnet3 still being used?

[Jason Wang]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 9:42 PM Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>   Hi all,
>
> I recently noticed that we have quite a bunch of tickets against the vmxnet3
> device in our bug trackers, which indicate that this device could be used to
> crash QEMU in various ways:
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>   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues?state=opened&search=vmxnet3
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>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu?field.searchtext=vmxnet3
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> Having hardly any knowledge about this device and its usage at all, I wonder
> how much it is still used out there in the wild?

I guess it might have been used for virt-v2v in the past.

But I'm not sure what's the status now.

Thanks

> If there are still many
> users of this device, is there anybody interested here in helping to get
> these crashes fixed in the near future? Otherwise, should we maybe rather
> mark this device as deprecated and remove it in a couple of releases? What
> do you think?
>
>   Thomas
>