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* [Qemu-devel] QEMU_VM_SECTION START/END/PART/FULL
@ 2017-05-04 13:31 ali saeedi
  2017-05-04 15:36 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: ali saeedi @ 2017-05-04 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel

Hi
What are  "QEMU_VM_SECTION START/END/PART/FULL" in savevm.c ?
please explain them to me.
thanks a lot.

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* Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU_VM_SECTION START/END/PART/FULL
  2017-05-04 13:31 [Qemu-devel] QEMU_VM_SECTION START/END/PART/FULL ali saeedi
@ 2017-05-04 15:36 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dr. David Alan Gilbert @ 2017-05-04 15:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ali saeedi; +Cc: qemu-devel

* ali saeedi (ali.saeedi56@gmail.com) wrote:
> Hi
> What are  "QEMU_VM_SECTION START/END/PART/FULL" in savevm.c ?
> please explain them to me.

A QEMU migration stream is a sequence of 'sections'.
There are 4 (main) types of section:

  FULL: The entire contents of a device - that's most cases

  START: The start of a devices data that we're going to save
         split across multiple sections
  PART: More of a device previously that we had already sent a
        START for
  END: The end of a device that we sent a START for

Most devices we can send in one go (FULL); but some devices
are 'iterative' and need to be broken up into chunks - RAM is
the most common example because it's a lot of data that changes as
we're saving it.

Dave

> thanks a lot.
--
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

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