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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: "Anshul Makkar" <anshul.makkar@profitbricks.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] live migration + licensing issue.
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:19:24 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53BF1F7C.70909@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM4NYE-h7FuC4T98RnhQH1X=kFJ-kkDtOkqfCCkahM-fAQm14Q@mail.gmail.com>

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On 07/08/2014 03:10 PM, Anshul Makkar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yeah, I am aware of this option. But the point where I am concerned is
> that if Windows VM is running in QEMU 1.0 with pc-model 1.0 and then I
> upgrade the QEMU to 2.0 and I specify machine as pc-1.2, then Windows
> will see this as change in hardware and complain about the license.

That's by design.  If you were running under qemu 1.0 with pc-model 1.0,
then when you upgrade to qemu 2.0, you must STILL use pc-model 1.0 (and
not pc-1.2) if you want your guest to see the same hardware as what the
older qemu was providing, and therefore avoid a relicensing issue.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-10 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-08 15:24 [Qemu-devel] live migration + licensing issue Anshul Makkar
2014-07-08 16:25 ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-08 21:10   ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-09  7:36     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-09 11:09       ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-09 16:17         ` Alexandre DERUMIER
2014-07-09 16:25         ` Andreas Färber
2014-07-11 10:14           ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-11 11:09             ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-11 11:12             ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-11 11:50               ` Anshul Makkar
2014-07-11 12:20                 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-11 11:52               ` Eduardo Otubo
2014-07-11 12:19                 ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-11 12:29                   ` Eduardo Otubo
2014-07-11 12:41                     ` Markus Armbruster
2014-07-10 23:19     ` Eric Blake [this message]
2014-07-11 10:12       ` Anshul Makkar

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