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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] make windows notice media change
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:27:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907301327.13715.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0907301307021.13932@kaball-desktop>

> Think about a sysadmin that kept his server running for the last X years
> in a VM using xen (or kvm) and now wants to upgrade his host.
> Is he supposed to reboot the VM as well?
> Are we seriously suggesting that everytime the hypervisor is upgraded
> the sysadmin must reboot all his VMs?

I'd expect that stable branches would make effort to not break the 
snapshot/migration format.

I think it's entirely reasonable to require a VM reboot when you do a major 
hypervisor upgrade. I'd expect this to be the least of your problems.

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-30 12:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-29 12:07 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] make windows notice media change Gleb Natapov
2009-07-29 13:50 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] " Gleb Natapov
2009-07-29 14:22   ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 14:21     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-29 14:44       ` Avi Kivity
2009-07-29 14:35   ` Filip Navara
2009-07-29 14:40     ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-29 14:59       ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-07-29 19:11     ` Paul Brook
2009-07-29 19:18       ` Filip Navara
2009-07-29 19:24         ` Filip Navara
2009-07-29 19:34           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-29 19:52           ` Paul Brook
2009-07-29 19:56             ` Filip Navara
2009-07-29 20:05               ` Paul Brook
2009-07-29 20:14                 ` Gleb Natapov
2009-07-30 12:14                 ` Stefano Stabellini
2009-07-30 12:27                   ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-07-29 19:33     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-29 19:44       ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-07-29 20:05         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-29 20:09           ` Juan Quintela

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