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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/10] Refactor QEMUFile for live migration
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Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>, Uri Lublin <uri.lublin@qumranet.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org

On 9/9/08, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> To support live migration, we override QEMUFile so that instead of writing to
>  disk, the save/restore state happens over a network connection.
>
>  This patch makes QEMUFile read/write operations function pointers so that we
>  can override them for live migration.

>  +typedef struct QEMUFileUnix
>  +{
>  +    FILE *outfile;
>  +} QEMUFileUnix;

I'd rather use name stdio/StdIO instead of Unix, this code is not Unix
dependent.