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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C10F534.9000805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C10F2AC.8040600@redhat.com>

Am 10.06.2010 16:11, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 06/10/2010 04:08 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> It's just not seen by the guest because
>> it's saved at a high offset that is after the end of the real disk
>> content, but otherwise it should behave the same as guest data.
>>    
> 
> That's very unfriendly towards extending the guest-visible portion of 
> the disk.

Actually, it's not too bad: The start of the VM state area is aligned to
a L2 table start. It just requires moving some L1 table entries upwards.

Kevin

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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	armbru@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C10F534.9000805@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C10F2AC.8040600@redhat.com>

Am 10.06.2010 16:11, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 06/10/2010 04:08 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> It's just not seen by the guest because
>> it's saved at a high offset that is after the end of the real disk
>> content, but otherwise it should behave the same as guest data.
>>    
> 
> That's very unfriendly towards extending the guest-visible portion of 
> the disk.

Actually, it's not too bad: The start of the VM state area is aligned to
a L2 table start. It just requires moving some L1 table entries upwards.

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-10 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 15:05 KVM call minutes for June 8 Chris Wright
2010-06-08 15:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Chris Wright
2010-06-08 16:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 16:01   ` [Qemu-devel] " Anthony Liguori
2010-06-08 20:59   ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-06-08 21:13     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 15:18       ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-06-09 15:31         ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-06-09 15:31           ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-06-09 16:22           ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 16:22             ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 16:29             ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-06-09 16:29               ` Daniel P. Berrange
2010-06-10  9:43             ` Kevin Wolf
2010-06-10  9:43               ` Kevin Wolf
2010-06-10 12:53               ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-10 12:53                 ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-10 13:08                 ` Kevin Wolf
2010-06-10 13:08                   ` Kevin Wolf
2010-06-10 14:11                   ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-10 14:11                     ` Avi Kivity
2010-06-10 14:22                     ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2010-06-10 14:22                       ` Kevin Wolf
2010-06-10 14:27                   ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-10 14:27                     ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-11 12:55                     ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-06-11 12:55                       ` Luiz Capitulino
2010-06-11 13:48                       ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-11 13:48                         ` Anthony Liguori
2010-06-09 16:26         ` Anthony Liguori

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