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authorThanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@nutanix.com>2019-11-12 08:55:03 -0500
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libmuser can be made multi-threaded in order to improve performance. To
implement this we'll have to maintain a private context in struct file.
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+Troubleshooting
+---------------
+
+If you get the following error when starting QEMU:
+
+ qemu-system-x86_64: -device vfio-pci,sysfsdev=/sys/bus/mdev/devices/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000: vfio 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000: failed to read device config space: Bad address
+
+it might mean that you haven't properly patched your kernel.