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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Live migration - exec: support to be reintroduced?
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Charles Duffy wrote:
> Howdy.
>
> KVM's live migration support used to support an exec: protoco, 
> allowing  either a completely arbitrary transport or a mechanism for 
> storing system state to a separate file for later resurrection, being 
> used in the latter by libvirt's qemu driver. I notice that this 
> support no longer exists in the current codebase.
> Would a patch reimplementing this support be welcome?

Absolutely.  I wasn't aware that libvirt used the exec: protocol.  I'm 
somewhat surprised by that.  What did it use it for?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


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