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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 13:47:44 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a
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To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Andreas F?rber <afaerber@suse.de>, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> writes:

> On (Wed) 21 May 2014 [11:03:04], Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> * Amit Shah (amit.shah@redhat.com) wrote:
>
>> > The idea is to be able to take a qemu binary and compare with another
>> > binary; if only fields that are instantiated are used, various
>> > invocations will have to be tried to find devices that may have
>> > broken.
>> > 
>> > An alternative way of checking only devices which have been added to
>> > the running machine can be done via a monitor command (or a parameter
>> > to the existing cmdline option).  But I'm not sure if that'll be more
>> > useful than the current one.
>> 
>> Or perhaps a way to dump that info and mask your checker with it if wanted?
>
> A 'blacklist' file, which stores names of sections that you're not
> interested in?

An error message format that lets me grep -v for sections I'm not
interested in?  Stupidest solution that could possibly work...