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From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
To: Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:50:45 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130118195045.GD9449@amt.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F98084.4000200@redhat.com>

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:04:04AM -0600, Cole Robinson wrote:
> >> Thanks for the analysis Paolo, here's the final patch I used:
> >>
> >> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/qemu.git/tree/0004-Fix-migration-compat-with-qemu-kvm.patch
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Cole
> > 
> > Cole,
> > 
> > version_id and minimum_version_id should be changed to 2, as the comment
> > indicates.

Problem is it uses acpi_load_old, when reading from qemu-kvm 1.2 (which
advertises format as V2), which reads 4*16 bits (instead of 16 bits)
for en/sts fields. So it can corrupt incoming migration data.

> But won't that mean we have to carry that patch forever, and while we carry
> that patch we can never migrate from Fedora qemu to an upstream qemu instance?
> I'd like to avoid carrying any incompatibility forward, if possible.

No useful ideas :(

      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-18 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-12 22:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] define qemukvm-1.2 machine type Marcelo Tosatti
2012-12-13  8:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-13 20:29   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-12-13 21:25   ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-12-13 21:35     ` Anthony Liguori
2012-12-13 21:41       ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-12-14  7:54         ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-14 13:29           ` Anthony Liguori
2012-12-14 13:46             ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-12-13 21:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-15  3:45 ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-15 16:29   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-16 23:17     ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-18 12:12       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-18 17:04         ` Cole Robinson
2013-01-18 17:34           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-18 20:09             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2013-01-19 14:17               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-01-18 19:50           ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]

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