From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42831) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrWHZ-0005aD-KR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:44:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrWHS-00070s-4c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:44:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:21689) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WrWHR-000704-OX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 13:44:18 -0400 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s52HiGUs026337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 13:44:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:44:12 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20140602174411.GH2634@work-vm> References: <1401276034-30486-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com> <5385CC10.6030909@redhat.com> <20140528120444.GE2372@work-vm> <871tv7bhyn.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org> <20140602135004.GF2634@work-vm> <538C9D74.3020204@redhat.com> <20140602164032.GG2634@work-vm> <538CB6DF.3050907@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <538CB6DF.3050907@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Migrate with destination version List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lcapitulino@redhat.com, Laszlo Ersek , Markus Armbruster , quintela@redhat.com * Paolo Bonzini (pbonzini@redhat.com) wrote: > Il 02/06/2014 18:40, Dr. David Alan Gilbert ha scritto: > >>>> > > >>>> >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. > > If the version-based interface turns out to be not enough, we've done the > work for nothing. In fact, we already know that it is not enough to solve > 2.0->1.6 migration with -M pc-1.5. Remind me, why doesn't it solve that? (It would be a pain to implement but if this is just the pci host format I believe it would be doable) Dave -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK