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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:12:18 -0500
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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>>> It may be stupid question.
>>> This migration is SMP aware?
>>>       
>> Yes it is (SMP aware).
>>     
>
> Another stupid question from me.
>
> How stable is it likely to be between versions of QEMU and KVM?

Once I merge the migration patches, I'll help Avi merge this into KVM.  
The whole point of this exercise is to merge the KVM bits into QEMU but 
in the process, I decided the bits needed to be written :-)

>   Also,
> is there any hope of migrating between QEMU and KVM, so long as the
> same device config is used, it's not SMP, etc.?
>   

Yes.  The primary reason that hasn't been possible in the past was 
because of how memory was migrated.  The new memory migration protocol 
happens to make it easier to let QEMU and KVM be compatible.  That 
wasn't an accident :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> -- Jamie
>