Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Live migration protocol, device features, ABIs and other beasts

[Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:29:12AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/23/2009 09:26 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >>>>  >I'd go with chunk instead of feature bits, specifying them like in
> >>>>  >the PNG specification:
> >>>
> >>>  You mean, each device would have multiple sections?  We already use
> >>>  chunks for each device state.
> >>>
> >Each device can send device info in multiple formats (each format with
> >its own ID) and destination will choose the one it supports.
> 
> First of all, we'd need a mechanism to send _lengths_ of chunks.
And we need the mechanism to match incoming chunks to a consumer.
Not relay on order of incoming data.

> This is especially important since there could be other consumers
> than QEMU for vm state data, and these may be interested only in few
> pieces of data.
> 
> Paolo

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