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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: portability issues
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:53:23 +0100
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>>> Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com> 21.06.07 10:37 >>>
>(1) and (2): I want to kill off use of vcpu_guest_context in dom0 tools,
>make hvm save/restore a generic state load/save interface, and define
>extensible structures at that interface (pass a stream of state chunks =
back
>and forth at the interface, each chunk having a size in its header, and =
so
>increasing the size of a chunk allows it to be naturally appended to and
>hence extended).

I wasn't concerned about the tools interface. The real compatibility =
problem
is VCPUOP_initialize.

Jan