From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Alexandre DERUMIER <aderumier@odiso.com>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Unable to migrate pc-i440fx-2.4 KVM guest from QEMU 2.5.0 to QEMU 2.4.1
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:32:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56C61C33.2050003@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56C60C56.3010803@redhat.com>
On 02/18/16 19:24, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>
>
> On 18/02/2016 18:54, Alexandre DERUMIER wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I (and promox users) have same problem than this bugreport
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1536487
>> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/cant-live-migrate-after-dist-upgrade.26097/
>>
>> Migrating from qemu 2.5 with pc-i440fx-2.4 to qemu 2.4.1 don't work.
>> qemu-system-x86_64: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'fw_cfg'
>
> While I agree that this is a bug worth fixing, note that in general
> migration from new to old versions is _not_ supported. Usually it
> works, but not always, and sometimes it's not a bug.
>
> Machine types are only meant to support migration from old versions to new.
>
> Paolo
>
I sent a patch.
Laszlo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-18 19:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 17:54 [Qemu-devel] Unable to migrate pc-i440fx-2.4 KVM guest from QEMU 2.5.0 to QEMU 2.4.1 Alexandre DERUMIER
2016-02-18 18:13 ` Laszlo Ersek
2016-02-18 18:24 ` Paolo Bonzini
2016-02-18 19:32 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
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