From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] The State of the SaveVM format
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:08:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910120802.GA24530@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA85E1F.6000902@codemonkey.ws>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:02:07PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> If we complicate vmstate now to shoehorn pre-vmstate
>> formats into vmstate, that ancient history will continue to haunt us.
>> Complicating a program is far easier than the other direction.
>>
>
> Let's take it one step at a time. There is an awful lot of areas where
> we can support older versions without adding complications. Let's
> approach the complicated ones one at a time.
I'm not sure I understand this talk about "pre-vmstate formats".
I thought vmstate patches were, at least for the most part, trying
to reimplement existing format with the table-driver design?
If that's not so and we are changing the format now, is it too late to
consider some standard serialization format rather than rolling our own?
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 8:47 [Qemu-devel] The State of the SaveVM format Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 8:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 9:22 ` Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 9:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 9:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 9:26 ` Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 12:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-09 14:33 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-09 14:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-09 14:49 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-09-09 14:57 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-09 15:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2009-09-09 15:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-09 15:47 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-10 1:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-10 1:26 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-09-10 2:02 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-09-10 12:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-09-10 12:55 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2009-09-10 13:07 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-09-10 13:26 ` Juan Quintela
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