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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:08:42 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/15] virtio-serial: save/load: Ensure
	nr_ports on src and dest are same.
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To: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Fri) Mar 26 2010 [01:09:23], Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Amit Shah wrote:
> > > The number of ports on the source as well as the destination machines
> > > should match. If they don't, it means some ports that got hotplugged on
> > > the source aren't instantiated on the destination. Or that ports that
> > > were hot-unplugged on the source are created on the destination.
> > 
> > Surely the set of guest-visible ids must match exactly and be checked
> > (maybe mapped, if they were given in a different order), in which case
> > counting the number of ports looks redundant.
> > 
> > I.e. is this check hiding the omission of the proper one?
> 
> Yes, That's added in a later patch (5). That patch changes the guest
> abi, so it's separate.
> 
> Also, patch 3 checks if all the ports on the src are present on the
> dest.

Great, thanks :-)

-- Jamie