From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38521) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkH97-0003B2-D3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:28:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkH8w-0003xO-GN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:28:25 -0500 Received: from goliath.siemens.de ([192.35.17.28]:32111) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RkH8w-0003wo-7Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:28:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4F0B0782.4090606@siemens.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:28:02 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1323467645-24271-1-git-send-email-anthony.perard@citrix.com> <4EE617BA.4030102@siemens.com> <4EEE25DA.2080400@redhat.com> <4F048B10.1060505@redhat.com> <4F059C8C.2030303@redhat.com> <4F05A684.7000509@redhat.com> <4F05BF9E.7000203@redhat.com> <4F05D0BC.70707@redhat.com> <4F05E301.2020808@redhat.com> <4F05F09E.8030800@web.de> <4F06F76F.7090002@web.de> <4F097253.5080600@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 5/5] vga-cirrus: Workaround during restore when using Xen. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Anthony Perard , Xen Devel , Avi Kivity , QEMU-devel On 2012-01-09 16:25, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 01/06/2012 04:40 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> Avi, if you think that early_savevm is a decent solution, we'll start >>> working on it. >> >> I don't like early_savevm because it complicates life for devices, for >> what is a localized problem. But if everything else is even more >> complicated maybe we should do it. > > I have been thinking more about this issue but unfortunately I cannot > come up with anything better than early_savevm. And I do not yet see the impact of the early_savevm concept on devices. Its point is to have some vmstate that is unrelated, actually predates any device creation (during restore). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 5/5] vga-cirrus: Workaround during restore when using Xen. Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:28:02 +0100 Message-ID: <4F0B0782.4090606@siemens.com> References: <1323467645-24271-1-git-send-email-anthony.perard@citrix.com> <4EE617BA.4030102@siemens.com> <4EEE25DA.2080400@redhat.com> <4F048B10.1060505@redhat.com> <4F059C8C.2030303@redhat.com> <4F05A684.7000509@redhat.com> <4F05BF9E.7000203@redhat.com> <4F05D0BC.70707@redhat.com> <4F05E301.2020808@redhat.com> <4F05F09E.8030800@web.de> <4F06F76F.7090002@web.de> <4F097253.5080600@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Anthony Perard , Xen Devel , Avi Kivity , QEMU-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 2012-01-09 16:25, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 01/06/2012 04:40 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >>> Avi, if you think that early_savevm is a decent solution, we'll start >>> working on it. >> >> I don't like early_savevm because it complicates life for devices, for >> what is a localized problem. But if everything else is even more >> complicated maybe we should do it. > > I have been thinking more about this issue but unfortunately I cannot > come up with anything better than early_savevm. And I do not yet see the impact of the early_savevm concept on devices. Its point is to have some vmstate that is unrelated, actually predates any device creation (during restore). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux