From 4d1a19eb8889cd4914c72572e0540610281b1757 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Lamprecht Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2019 08:29:34 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ivshmem: add note about device deletion on VM stop Signed-off-by: Thomas Lamprecht --- qm.adoc | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/qm.adoc b/qm.adoc index e114439..4f9ae15 100644 --- a/qm.adoc +++ b/qm.adoc @@ -717,6 +717,10 @@ To add such a device, you can use `qm`: Where the size is in MiB. The file will be located under `/dev/shm/pve-shm-$name` (the default name is the vmid). +NOTE: Currently the device will get deleted as soon as any VM using it got +shutdown or stopped. Open connections will still persist, but new connections +to the exact same device cannot be made anymore. + A use case for such a device is the Looking Glass footnote:[Looking Glass: https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/] project, which enables high performance, low-latency display mirroring between -- 2.39.2