From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] test-vmstate: add test case to verify we don't change VMState
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 16:13:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3sjudq39d.fsf@neno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=82NX5cqrKx2bYDe3YUBcPaM03GN4owxQZRrp3@mail.gmail.com> (Peter Maydell's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:36:41 +0000")
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 23 March 2011 14:19, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:
>> ARM people are sending lots of vmstate changes, I guess/hope that
>> somebody is trying to get it working.
>>
>> /me looks at Peter O:-), hint, hint, ...
>
> Well, the main thing I care about currently (or did back before
> Christmas which is when I sent a patchset to add save/restore
> to a pile of ARM devices) is simple save-and-restore for debugging
> use. The rest is just that patches don't get through code review
> unless they get the vmstate stuff right, and I care about not
> being rejected :-)
>
> I think it's still the case that there are devices in
> some of the ARM devboards with no save/restore support
> at all. I would really prefer it if the default for a
> device was "I do not support this" with the things like
> USB where somebody has audited them as genuinely needing
> no save/restore code explicitly marked as "this is OK";
> then we could easily determine what needed fixing and
> not offer a broken facility to users.
I agree, but that means (again), review of all devices to change the
defaults. It is on my ToDo list (but my ToDo list is huge :-(
>> Any idea if there are images for testing ARM?
>
> There are prebuilt images on Aurelien's website for
> ARM and others, which is the simplest thing:
> http://www.aurel32.net/info/debian_arm_qemu.php
That images don't migrate for me at all. Guest got hung after
migration, at least some state (probably irq's) are not passed
correctly.
Later, Juan.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-23 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-23 0:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] Add live migration unit tests Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 8:13 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23 8:19 ` Roy Tam
2011-03-23 8:41 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23 8:58 ` Roy Tam
2011-03-23 9:19 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-23 9:22 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] vmstate: register all VMStateDescriptions Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 9:00 ` Alon Levy
2011-03-23 12:30 ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 12:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/11] vmstate: for vmstate types that reuse the same field, make sure name is unique Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 2:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/11] sb16: fix migration quirk Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 9:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 12:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] vga-isa: fix migration by breaking it Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 9:54 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] fdc: fix migration of non-ISA fdc devices Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] eeprom93xx: Use the new hack macro to avoid duplicate field names Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 9:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 12:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 14:14 ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] fw_cfg: make sure all VMState fields are unique Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] pckbd: make non-ISA pckbd use a unique name Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] vl: add a new -vmstate-dump option to write a VMState JSON schema Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/11] test-vmstate: add test case to verify we don't change VMState Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 2:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 8:37 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23 10:22 ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 12:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 14:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 15:00 ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 15:06 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-23 16:27 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 16:36 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-23 18:42 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 16:45 ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 17:01 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 15:26 ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 16:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 16:44 ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:19 ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:36 ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 15:13 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2011-03-23 15:24 ` Peter Maydell
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