Re: [Qemu-devel] (no subject)

[Uri Lublin]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009, Uri Lublin wrote:
> > The following patch fixes saving/loading/migrating a VM with
> > multiple e1000 NICs.
>
> I don't know what problems you're seeing, but this is definitely not the right 
> way to fix them.
>
> > It turns out many devices use -1 as instance (for register_savevm),
> > which is wrong in cases where there can exist multiple such
> > devices within a single VM.
>
> No it isn't. -1 means automatically assign IDs, and is what everything should 
> be using. The explicit ID argument is a historcal wart. Read the comment 
> above register_savevm.
>
> Paul

Paul,

You are right, I was wrong.
This patch is a fix for an older qemu, and is not needed.

Thanks for catching that,
    Uri.