[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3] Support for marking domains as "tainted"

Dave Allan dallan at redhat.com
Thu May 5 14:03:03 UTC 2011


On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:28:45PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> There are various configurations for virtual domains that we allow,
> but do not wish to actively support in production environments.
> The support situation is similar to that of binary only or non-GPL
> kernel modules, so borrow the kernel's idea of "tainting".
> 
> When an undesirable configuration is used on a running VM, set a
> suitable taint flag and log a warning. OS distro bug triagers can
> see these warnings and decide whether to support users filing bugs
> in this scenarios

ACK to the concept.

Dave



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