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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>

On 11/24/2009 07:51 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> to make the primary representation of state an XML document

Since my brain is not working well today, I'll just point out that of 
course I meant "the primary representation of _schemas_ an XML document" 
or anything like that.

>> or  anything like that (and convert it back to VMState structs at build
>> time), it would not be a huge work, and it would give important benefits.
>
> Like adding tremendous complexity for little to no gain.

Anything that could result in a libqemustate or something like that 
would be complex, but would have gain.  (Yes, I've seen the smiley 
despite aforementioned problems with the brain).

Paolo