From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 128Kb bios size and older machines?
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:31:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1391697093.17309.48.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1391694723.25128.14.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
Hi,
> I'm not sure why the BIOS size is relevant to migration anyway, Xen
> doesn't load a new BIOS on the target host, the BIOS image is part of
> the migrated RAM.
The memory layout is different with a larger bios as qemu makes the
virtual flash as big as the bios image is. The different memory layout
in turn makes live migration fail.
cheers,
Gerd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-06 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-06 8:28 [Qemu-devel] 128Kb bios size and older machines? Michael Tokarev
2014-02-06 8:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2014-02-06 13:08 ` Michael Tokarev
2014-02-06 13:15 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-06 13:30 ` Michael Tokarev
2014-02-06 13:52 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-06 14:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2014-02-06 14:48 ` Ian Campbell
2014-02-06 23:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-06 23:56 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-02-07 7:11 ` Michael Tokarev
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