[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 05/11] vga-isa: fix migration by breaking it

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> This is pretty sad.  We use the same section name for vga-isa as we do for
> vga-pci even though we use separate formats.  This breaks the live migration
> protocol because we may misinterpret the vga-isa as a vga-pci device.
>
> vga-isa should use it's own wrapper just like vga-pci does.  That's what we do
> in this patch.
>
> Signed-by-off: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
> ---
>  hw/vga-isa.c |   13 +++++++++++--
>  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/vga-isa.c b/hw/vga-isa.c
> index 5f1ef76..eaae2e0 100644
> --- a/hw/vga-isa.c
> +++ b/hw/vga-isa.c
> @@ -72,10 +72,19 @@ static int vga_initfn(ISADevice *dev)
>      return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static const VMStateDescription vmstate_vga_isa = {
> +    .name = "isa-vga",
> +    .version_id = 1,
> +    .fields = (VMStateField []) {
> +        VMSTATE_STRUCT(state, ISAVGAState, 0, vmstate_vga_common, VGACommonState),
> +        VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST(),
> +    },
> +};
> +
>  static ISADeviceInfo vga_info = {
>      .qdev.name     = "isa-vga",
>      .qdev.size     = sizeof(ISAVGAState),
> -    .qdev.vmsd     = &vmstate_vga_common,
> +    .qdev.vmsd     = &vmstate_vga_isa,
>      .qdev.reset     = vga_reset_isa,
>      .qdev.no_user  = 1,
>      .init          = vga_initfn,
> @@ -84,7 +93,7 @@ static ISADeviceInfo vga_info = {
>  /* Register the VMState Description to support VMState introspection */
>  static void init_vmstate_description_0(void)
>  {
> -    register_vmstate_description(&vmstate_vga_common);
> +    register_vmstate_description(&vmstate_vga_isa);
>  }
>  
>  vmstate_init(init_vmstate_description_0);

This was done that way when I ported this device.

This define is also always setup CONFIG_BOCHS_VBE, and at some point it
didn't worked without it.

But this is a different problem that doing the tests.

Later, JUan.