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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice project is now open
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To: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Izik Eidus wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:40:21 -0600
> Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
>   
>> FWIW, I don't see any reason why Spice couldn't be made to be
>> separate from guest emulation.  I think it would just require the
>> right interfacing in qemu.  I think that's purely an implementation
>> detail.
>>     
>
> The QXL device is one of the core compoments of spice..., how can you
> separate it from the guest visible state? (it is pci device)
>   

How does live migration work then?  Do you have to query libspice for 
it's state?  Does it return an opaque blob?  How can it integrate with 
VMState since libspice doesn't have any knowledge of something like VMState?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori