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[188.85.150.151]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f18-20020a05600c155200b00402ff8d6086sm9177378wmg.18.2023.10.23.04.09.01 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 23 Oct 2023 04:09:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Juan Quintela To: Peter Xu Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S . Tsirkin" , Leonardo Bras , Jiri Denemark , Avihai Horon , Fiona Ebner , Daniel P . =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] migration: Add documentation for backwards compatiblity In-Reply-To: (Peter Xu's message of "Tue, 16 May 2023 19:39:31 -0400") References: <20230515083201.55060-1-quintela@redhat.com> <20230515083201.55060-2-quintela@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.3 (gnu/linux) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:09:01 +0200 Message-ID: <875y2xtx2q.fsf@secure.mitica> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=quintela@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: quintela@redhat.com Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Peter Xu wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote: [..] >> +When we do migration, we have to QEMU process: the source and the > > s/to/two/, s/process/processes/ done. >> +target. There are two cases, they are the same version or they are a >> +different version. > > s/a different version/different versions/ done >> +The easy case is when they are the same version. >> +The difficult one is when they are different versions. >> + >> +There are two things that are different, but they have very similar >> +names and sometimes get confused: > > (space) > >> +- QEMU version >> +- machine version > > It's normally called "machine type", so maybe use that? Or just "machine > version / machine type"? machine type version > > This is definitely more detailed than I thought. :) > > Acked-by: Peter Xu Thanks, Juan.