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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Charles Duffy <Charles_Duffy@messageone.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add file: migration support (r2)
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:44:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811131844.11491.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gfhq8c$pjm$1@ger.gmane.org>

On Thursday 13 November 2008, Charles Duffy wrote:
> This patch adds support for migration to and from file: targets, moves
> common helpers between exec: and file: use cases from migration-exec.c
> to migration.c, and adds a qemu_fdopen() helper parallel to qemu_fopen().
>
> Compared to the previous version submitted, it removes some cruft which
> was accidentally included, and documents the limitations of O_NONBLOCK
> on Linux with local filesystem access.

I don't see any documentation.

The documentation should make it clear that this is not intended as a 
substitute for savvm/loadvm. A "live" migration doesn't make sense if you're 
writing to an actual file (rather than a FIFO) as you'll end up with 
unecessarily large files.

Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-13 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-13 18:04 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add file: migration support (r2) Charles Duffy
2008-11-13 18:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-13 18:44 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2008-11-13 18:49   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-11-14  3:33   ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-14  3:49     ` Paul Brook
2008-11-18  3:04       ` Jamie Lokier
2008-11-18 12:57         ` Paul Brook
2008-11-18 14:26           ` Anthony Liguori

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