From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:60104) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfAeD-0001YO-5F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:59:10 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfAeB-0007A0-Op for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:59:08 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f173.google.com ([74.125.82.173]:46485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QfAeB-00079o-E1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:59:07 -0400 Received: by wyf28 with SMTP id 28so1499840wyf.4 for ; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 05:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4E16FF18.8070204@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:59:04 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1310115239-19288-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <4E16D3D8.60908@redhat.com> <4E16D4EF.5020903@redhat.com> <4E16D949.2060305@redhat.com> <4E16EE6A.6000506@redhat.com> <4E16F26D.40404@redhat.com> <4E16FC73.1010600@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4E16FC73.1010600@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] non-migratable devices List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 07/08/2011 02:47 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> >> One possibility is to add device name remapping to machine types, like >> "ide is actually ide-0.14 when using pc-0.14" and put a different >> VMState in ide-0.14. > > That isn't very different from subsections. > > Problem is that the old qemu version doesn't have the section at all, > not that it looks somehow different. No, I meant a different qdev name, i.e. mapping the same device name to a different DeviceInfo. Paolo