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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/10] Live migration for QEMU
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:22:53 -0500
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> 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 :-)
>>
>
> Well, it's still broken IMO (migration ram_addr_t rather than physical 
> addresses).

Have you thought of a solution other than make "mem" only save physical 
memory and have everything else save their own memory?

That gets really funky because then everything needs live save/restore 
tracking.  It's quite messy.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori