From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [summary] virtio network device failover writeup
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:06:31 -0400
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