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From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] Add machine parameter
 qemu-kvm-migration for live migrate compatibility with qemu-kvm
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To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Ryan Harper <ryan.harper@canonical.com>, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Libvirt <libvir-list@redhat.com>, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, "quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>, Andreas F?rber <afaerber@suse.de>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>

* Michael Tokarev (mjt@tls.msk.ru) wrote:
> 22.09.2014 23:34, Alex Bligh wrote:
> > This patch series adds inbound migrate capability from qemu-kvm version
> > 1.0. [...]
> 
> Isn't it quite a bit too late already?  That's an old version by
> now, and supporting migration from it is interesting for long-term
> support distributions - like redhat for example, with several
> years of release cycle.  Is it really necessary at this time to
> add this ability to upstream qemu?
> 
> It'd be very nice to have this capability right when qemu-kvm
> tree has been merged (or even before that), but it's been some
> years ago already.

It's amazing what different combinations of QEMU people have
out there; and it seems reasonable to let Alex fix this problem
if it helps him; there's no reason to deny others the same fix.

Dave

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