From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgcap-0006uJ-Tv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:15:47 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgcao-0006tR-8M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:15:47 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgcao-0006tK-3O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:15:46 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgcan-0002ln-SN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:15:46 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so62052uge.4 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:15:01 +0200 From: "andrzej zaborowski" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Are VM snapshots on Ubuntu host compatible with Fedora host? In-Reply-To: <47F1A24E.7050809@quinthar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <47E1B6FB.7080306@quinthar.com> <47E342FF.5010703@quinthar.com> <47F19456.20807@quinthar.com> <47F19CD0.3050709@codemonkey.ws> <47F1A24E.7050809@quinthar.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 01/04/2008, David Barrett wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > David Barrett wrote: > >> Following up on this, I created a brand-new WinXP image from scratch > >> (on my Ubuntu box), uploaded to my headless Fedora box, and it still > >> has the exact same crash: > >> > >> qemu: warning: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram' > >> qemu: fatal: triple fault > >> > >> So is it safe to say that QEMU VM snapshots are not transferable > >> between hosts? > > > > KVM images are not compatible with QEMU. If one of your servers is > > running KVM, that's likely your problem. > > > Ahh, very interesting. > > Just to make sure I understand correctly, this means VM snapshots made > when QEMU has KQEMU enabled will not transfer between machines, right? No, as long as you are using qemu (with kqemu or without) an image should run identically on any host. Unless you're using kvm on one of the hosts, what you're seeing is some bug. Cheers -- Please do not print this email unless absolutely necessary. Spread environmental awareness.