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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Live migration protocol, device features,
	ABIs and other beasts
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> It's very easy: if their guest runs fine on the old qemu,
> it should be safe to migrate there.
>   

"Runs fine" is a qualitative statement.  There is no way for qemu to 
know whether a guest runs fine or not.  There is no way that we can make 
that statement either.  It has to be something that is controlled higher 
in the stack.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori