Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH] spapr: disable vmdesc submission for old machines

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 05:47:59PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Since QEMU 2.3, we have a vmdesc section in the migration stream.
> This section is not mandatory but when migrating a pseries-2.2
> machine from QEMU 2.2, you get a warning at the destination:
> 
> qemu-system-ppc64: Expected vmdescription section, but got 0
> 
> The warning goes away if we decide to skip vmdesc as well for
> older pseries, like it is already done for pc's.
> 
> This can only be observed with -cpu POWER7 because POWER8
> cannot migrate from QEMU 2.2 to 2.3 (insns_flags2 mismatch).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Applied to ppc-for-2.6, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index c119f5582429..3b4a557c0a91 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -2452,6 +2452,7 @@ DEFINE_SPAPR_MACHINE(2_3, "2.3", false);
>  static void spapr_machine_2_2_instance_options(MachineState *machine)
>  {
>      spapr_machine_2_3_instance_options(machine);
> +    machine->suppress_vmdesc = true;
>  }
>  
>  static void spapr_machine_2_2_class_options(MachineClass *mc)
> 
> 

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