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From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: KVM call agenda for October 11th
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:39:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E94631B.8000209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E944AB0.2030903@codemonkey.ws>

On 10/11/2011 09:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 08:27 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about it this morning.  I think it's solvable.  We 
> need to be able to save off the qdev construction properties right 
> before init.  This is just a matter of storing a list of strings.  
> Then we need a qdev_torture function that will save the device state 
> (will require a dummy QEMUFile that saves to memory).  We then need to 
> invoke destruction w/o actually freeing the memory of the device.  We 
> should then zero out the device memory.
>
> We then need to run through qdev creation, setting properties based on 
> the saved construction properties.  Then we should init and invoke the 
> device's reset function.  Finally we can pass the dummy QEMUFile to 
> the device's load function (or vmstate).
If you want, I have a 'dummy QEMUFile' implementation...

    Stefan

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From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for October 11th
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:39:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E94631B.8000209@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E944AB0.2030903@codemonkey.ws>

On 10/11/2011 09:54 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 08:27 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about it this morning.  I think it's solvable.  We 
> need to be able to save off the qdev construction properties right 
> before init.  This is just a matter of storing a list of strings.  
> Then we need a qdev_torture function that will save the device state 
> (will require a dummy QEMUFile that saves to memory).  We then need to 
> invoke destruction w/o actually freeing the memory of the device.  We 
> should then zero out the device memory.
>
> We then need to run through qdev creation, setting properties based on 
> the saved construction properties.  Then we should init and invoke the 
> device's reset function.  Finally we can pass the dummy QEMUFile to 
> the device's load function (or vmstate).
If you want, I have a 'dummy QEMUFile' implementation...

    Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-11 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-10 11:35 KVM call agenda for October 11th Juan Quintela
2011-10-10 11:35 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-10-11 11:36 ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-11 11:36   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-10-11 12:54   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 12:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 11:48 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 11:48   ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 13:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 13:01     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 13:21     ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 13:21       ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 13:27       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 13:47         ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 13:57           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 14:01             ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 14:34               ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 14:43                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-10-11 13:27   ` Juan Quintela
2011-10-11 13:27     ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-10-11 13:54     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 13:54       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-10-11 15:39       ` Stefan Berger [this message]
2011-10-11 15:39         ` Stefan Berger

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