From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: amit.shah@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Migration compatibility for serial
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 08:58:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150617085742-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8vyj079.fsf@blackfin.pond.sub.org>
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >
> > Older QEMUs dont understand the new (sub)sections that
> > may be generated in the serial device. Limit their generation
> > to newer machine types.
>
> Please explain briefly what state migration can lose with old machine
> types, and how this could impact the guest. The commits adding the
> subsections should have the information[*]. Pointers to them might
> suffice.
>
>
> [*] Should != do; I didn't check.
OTOH if we have flags named after specific portions we skip,
and not after qemu versions, this becomes evident from code.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-17 6:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-16 18:54 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Migration compatibility for serial Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2015-06-16 20:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 9:09 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-06-17 6:52 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-06-17 6:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2015-06-17 7:11 ` Markus Armbruster
2015-06-17 7:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 7:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 7:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 8:11 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 10:13 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 10:48 ` Juan Quintela
2015-06-17 10:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-06-17 10:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 10:59 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-06-17 11:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 10:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 11:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 11:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-06-17 11:44 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 11:48 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 12:07 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-06-17 12:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 14:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:34 ` Juan Quintela
2015-06-17 16:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 11:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 11:53 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 11:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 11:55 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 11:58 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 12:20 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 14:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:16 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 16:34 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 16:35 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 9:26 ` Juan Quintela
2015-06-17 10:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-06-17 8:37 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2015-06-17 8:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-06-17 9:38 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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