From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: "Juan Quintela" <quintela@redhat.com>,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>,
"\"Dr. David Alan Gilbert\"" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis
Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 06:51:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5370C3EA.5070506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f75cb6f1f65dc9fb91e63db3fbe49711dea35060.1399892389.git.amit.shah@redhat.com>
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On 05/12/2014 05:16 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> This commit adds a new command, '-dump-vmstate', that takes a filename
> as a parameter. When executed, QEMU will dump the vmstate information
> for the machine type it's invoked with to the file, and quit.
>
> The JSON-format output can then be used to compare the vmstate info for
> different QEMU versions, specifically to test whether live migration
> would break due to changes in the vmstate data.
Are we going to document that JSON format anywhere? Is it worth making
it part of qapi-schema.json, whether to also expose the dump via a QMP
command, or at a bare minimum to take advantage of some code generation
from the qapi engine rather than doing it all by hand?
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-12 11:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/18] migration: add static analysis tool to check vmstate compat between versions Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis Amit Shah
2014-05-12 12:51 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-05-13 4:12 ` Amit Shah
2014-05-21 11:45 ` Eric Blake
2014-05-21 9:44 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-05-21 9:55 ` Amit Shah
2014-05-21 10:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-05-21 10:12 ` Amit Shah
2014-05-21 11:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-05-21 11:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] vmstate-static-checker: script to validate vmstate changes Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/18] tests: vmstate static checker: add dump1 and dump2 files Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/18] tests: vmstate static checker: incompat machine types Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/18] tests: vmstate static checker: add version error in main section Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/18] tests: vmstate static checker: version mismatch inside a Description Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/18] tests: vmstate static checker: minimum_version_id check Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove a section Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove a field Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove last field in a struct Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/18] tests: vmstate static checker: change description name Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove Fields Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove Description Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove Description inside Fields Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove a subsection Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/18] tests: vmstate static checker: remove Subsections Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/18] tests: vmstate static checker: add substructure for usb-kbd for hid section Amit Shah
2014-05-12 11:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/18] tests: vmstate static checker: add size mismatch inside substructure Amit Shah
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