From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45638 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OMies-0005bA-SJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:23:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMier-0007bU-OJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:23:02 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:16211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OMier-0007bH-Fa for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:23:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4C10F534.9000805@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:22:44 +0200 From: Kevin Wolf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call minutes for June 8 References: <20100608150500.GA28492@x200.localdomain> <4C0E694F.8040607@codemonkey.ws> <20100608175952.5f43ea8f@redhat.com> <4C0EB281.80907@codemonkey.ws> <20100609121820.1f3bb47a@redhat.com> <20100609153107.GE28326@redhat.com> <4C0FBFDF.5050009@codemonkey.ws> <4C10B3AF.5000201@redhat.com> <4C10E064.5090106@codemonkey.ws> <4C10E3B2.9070905@redhat.com> <4C10F2AC.8040600@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4C10F2AC.8040600@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Chris Wright , Luiz Capitulino , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel , armbru@redhat.com Am 10.06.2010 16:11, schrieb Avi Kivity: > On 06/10/2010 04:08 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote: >> It's just not seen by the guest because >> it's saved at a high offset that is after the end of the real disk >> content, but otherwise it should behave the same as guest data. >> > > That's very unfriendly towards extending the guest-visible portion of > the disk. Actually, it's not too bad: The start of the VM state area is aligned to a L2 table start. It just requires moving some L1 table entries upwards. Kevin