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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Snapshots not bound to an architecture?
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:22:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EBC514.7010209@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f43fc5580810021207j14e11dd1wd7527c421d7d566c@mail.gmail.com>

Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While testing the savevm/loadvm functions, I noticed that it's
> possible to attempt to load a snapshot made for entirely different
> architecture. There are a lot of warnings, of course.
>
> Could we prevent this somehow? Or is there a use case for this, for
> example loading a snapshot made on i386 to an x86_64 emulator?
>   

I think we should introduce a machine section for save/restore that 
included that information.  It should also be versioned in such a way 
that it could be incremented whenever a new piece of hardware is added 
to the default machine type.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-07 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-02 19:07 [Qemu-devel] Snapshots not bound to an architecture? Blue Swirl
2008-10-07 20:22 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-10-07 20:30   ` Paul Brook
2008-10-07 20:39     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-10-08 19:06       ` Blue Swirl

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