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Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 11:49:26 +0200
From: Peter Lieven <lieven-lists@dlhnet.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1100843] Re: Live Migration Causes
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, gleb@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com, mtosatti@redhat.com, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Zhang Haoyu <ahzhanghaoyu@gmail.com>, xiaoguangrong@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Bug 1100843 <1100843@bugs.launchpad.net>, mst@redhat.com, afaerber@suse.de

On 07.10.2013 11:37, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 07/10/2013 08:38, Peter Lieven ha scritto:
>> On 06.10.2013 15:57, Zhang Haoyu wrote:
>>>> >From my testing this has been fixed in the saucy version (1.5.0) of
>>> qemu. It is fixed by this patch:
>>>> f1c72795af573b24a7da5eb52375c9aba8a37972
>>>>
>>>> However later in the history this commit was reverted, and again broke
>>> this. The other commit that fixes this is:
>>>> 211ea74022f51164a7729030b28eec90b6c99a08
>>>>
>>> See below post,please.
>>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-08/msg05062.html
>> I would still like to fix qemu to not load roms etc. if we set up a
>> migration target. In this case
>> we could drop the madvise, skip the checking for zero pages and also
>> could avoid sending
>> zero pages at all. It would be the cleanest solution.
> It's in general not easy to do this if you take non-x86 targets into
> account.
What about the dirty way to zero out all non zero pages at the beginning of
ram_load?

Peter