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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for October 11th
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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On 10/11/2011 09:01 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 03:57 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> What I'm trying to avoid is making choices today that close the door on
>>> better fixes in the future.
>>
>>
>> I think Juan made a really good point in his earlier post.  We need to
>> focus on better testing for migration.  With a solid migration torture
>> test, we can probably eliminate much of the problems we're facing today.
>
> Agree, fingerprinting vmstate should help a lot.  Actually I don't think
> the visitor is strictly required, the fingerprinter can just walk
> vmstate structs.

You mean generating a schema?  I was talking about an active migration torture test.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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