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From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	Mike Day <ncmike@ncultra.org>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@gmail.com>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb-ohci: add vmstate descriptor
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 22:04:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <532DFAE8.90704@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA_oE0H6mkLmBpVri5B7OorEcqyOd+GpV+XfQSDnEsUjPw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 22.03.2014 21:54, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 22 March 2014 20:18, Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> wrote:
>> Because AFAIU
>> migration is possible without VMSD, just not with VMSD that sets
>> .unmigratable = 1.
> 
> Well, the migration won't fail with an error, but on the destination
> end you'll end up with a device in its reset state but a guest which
> may think the device is in some other state. If the device was
> quiescent and doesn't need complex setup it might cope, but
> more likely is that that guest driver will fall over in a heap next
> time you try to use it...

Well, there is no OHCI state being added, only PCI state. So I'd be
curious to know what in there is the problem because a general review of
PCI devices might be due then - and ideally before we do the release.

Cheers,
Andreas

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-22 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-06  6:43 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] usb-ohci: add vmstate descriptor Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-06 13:57 ` Mike Day
2014-03-14  5:09   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-22 20:18     ` Andreas Färber
2014-03-22 20:54       ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-22 21:04         ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2014-03-22 21:23           ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-24  5:53             ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-24  9:26               ` Peter Maydell
2014-03-24 10:26                 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-03-22 21:50           ` Alexey Kardashevskiy

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