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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Xen-unstable save error
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:23:51 +0100
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On 22/06/2010 11:05, "Michal Novotny" <minovotn@redhat.com> wrote:

>> Michal, is it possible you are running new tools against a slightly older
>> hypervisor? The tools changes had a corresponding, non-version-checked,
>> modification to a hypercall. Without running the modified hypervisor, HVM
>> save would indeed behave very oddly!
>>    
> Keir, I don't think so since the hypervisor datetime in /boot is the
> same like for kernel and tools.

Well, it remains something to doublecheck at least. There's no good reason
that HVM save should work okay for everyone else and only fail so miserably
for you.

 -- Keir