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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:15:59 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: Supsend/resume regression in c995b4 WAS: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH]
	Fix migration uint8 arrys handled
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

On 03/23/2011 04:10 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/22/2011 03:26 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> Here's how I propose we tackle this.  This patch adds a -dump-savevm 
>> option that takes a version.  It spits out all of the fields we save 
>> for a particular version (well, not really, but it should).  We also 
>> can add type information.  The idea is that we'd write a simple test 
>> case (using gtester) that ran through and dumped the schema for each 
>> version.  We'd store the schema's in the tree and the test can 
>> compare old schema's to the current schema to check for failure.
>>
>
> Instead of generating the schema and comparing, what about the other 
> way round?  Write vmstate in a formal schema, and generate the code at 
> runtime.

This is exactly where I want to go in the future.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori