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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200
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Am 10.06.2010 16:11, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 06/10/2010 04:08 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> It's just not seen by the guest because
>> it's saved at a high offset that is after the end of the real disk
>> content, but otherwise it should behave the same as guest data.
>>    
> 
> That's very unfriendly towards extending the guest-visible portion of 
> the disk.

Actually, it's not too bad: The start of the VM state area is aligned to
a L2 table start. It just requires moving some L1 table entries upwards.

Kevin