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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	jes sorensen <jes.sorensen@redhat.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] migration: new sections and backward compatibility.
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:23:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E15CF88.8080404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A1A7637F-D89B-4F20-8299-1105AE870967@suse.de>

On 07/07/2011 01:02 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> I'd guess the best would be to have a special VMSTATE that means
> "broken old version doesn't send a section" which we can set for
> special -M?

No, the best would be to have a serious migration format, based for 
example on ASN.1 which Michael Tsirkin was playing with.  We cannot keep 
bolting more and more stuff on top of the current protocol, especially 
since adding a new protocol is not that hard (old machine types can keep 
the old protocol).

> That would of course not help with RHEL:).

At least for RHEL6 we can live with adding a few hacks here and there.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-07 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-06 16:04 [Qemu-devel] migration: new sections and backward compatibility Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-06 17:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-07  7:19   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07 15:36     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-12 14:50       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07  9:23   ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-07 11:02     ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-07 15:23       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2011-07-11 15:32         ` Kevin Wolf
2011-07-11 15:31           ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-07-07 14:40     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07 15:37     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-07 16:44       ` Markus Armbruster
2011-07-06 17:28 ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-06 20:01   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-07-06 23:32     ` Alexander Graf
2011-07-07  7:14       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07  7:30         ` Avi Kivity
2011-07-08 13:02           ` Jes Sorensen
2011-07-08 14:43             ` Peter Maydell
2011-07-08 15:12               ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-07-07 15:33       ` Anthony Liguori

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