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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Migrate with destination version
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 17:40:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140602164032.GG2634@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538C9D74.3020204@redhat.com>

* Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com) wrote:
> Il 02/06/2014 15:50, Dr. David Alan Gilbert ha scritto:
> >However, it gets trickier since the destination libvirt has to know to send
> >the version information to the source; so we can only use this trick between
> >versions where the libvirt on both ends knows about it; so if we suddenly hit
> >a compatibility issue where we need it then we'd have to update libvirt on both
> >sides, which is too late.
> >
> >So putting this in now, and getting it into libvirt means everyone has the info.
> 
> It also means we have a higher risk of getting it wrong, and having to do
> the work twice.

That's why all this is does is provide the interface; it doesn't do anything behind
it and just allows us to wire in libvirt etc.

Dave
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-02 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1401276034-30486-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <5385CC10.6030909@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <20140528120444.GE2372@work-vm>
2014-06-02 12:42     ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Migrate with destination version Markus Armbruster
2014-06-02 13:50       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-06-02 15:51         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-02 16:40           ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2014-06-02 17:39             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-02 17:44               ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2014-06-02 20:05                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-04 18:51                   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert

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