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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	jes sorensen <jes.sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] migration: new sections and backward compatibility.
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:32:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1B1779.6080505@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E15CF88.8080404@redhat.com>

Am 07.07.2011 17:23, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> On 07/07/2011 01:02 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> I'd guess the best would be to have a special VMSTATE that means
>> "broken old version doesn't send a section" which we can set for
>> special -M?
> 
> No, the best would be to have a serious migration format, based for 
> example on ASN.1 which Michael Tsirkin was playing with.  We cannot keep 
> bolting more and more stuff on top of the current protocol, especially 
> since adding a new protocol is not that hard (old machine types can keep 
> the old protocol).

And even more so with the old format being ambiguous. We haven't decided
yet what to do with subsections of structs, have we?

Kevin

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-06 16:04 [Qemu-devel] migration: new sections and backward compatibility Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-06 17:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-07  7:19   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07 15:36     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-12 14:50       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07  9:23   ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-07 11:02     ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-07 15:23       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-11 15:32         ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2011-07-11 15:31           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-07 14:40     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07 15:37     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-07 16:44       ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-06 17:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-06 20:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-06 23:32     ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-07  7:14       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07  7:30         ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-08 13:02           ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-08 14:43             ` Peter Maydell
2011-07-08 15:12               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07 15:33       ` Anthony Liguori

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