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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 08:10 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> So this is what happens:
> - after migration from old qemu to new old BIOS is used until reset
> - after reset new BIOS is used
> - after upgrade from old version of qemu upgrade does not have any
>    effect until qemu is restarted
>
> If this is a fair summary, the only issue with fixing BIOS bug
> is migration from new qemu to old qemu, and we do not care much.
>    

Yes.

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