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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>

On 10/11/2009 04:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 04:42:27PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
>> On 10/11/2009 04:35 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>>      
>>> No, this is not how it works, I think.
>>> Currently BIOS ROM is loaded only on init, directly into qemu memory.
>>>
>>>        
>> If we change it we break in-place upgrades - install qemu, run guest,
>> upgrade qemu, reboot guest - now the old qemu runs with a new bios which
>> may or may not work.
>>      
> Sorry, could not parse this.
> If you upgraded qemu, you are running with new qemu with new bios?
>    

The guest is running during the upgrade, so the qemu executable is still 
from the old install (but deleted).

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