Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change virtio-console to PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_OTHER

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>   
> > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 00:45 +0300, Dor Laor wrote:
> >   
> > The more I think about it, no matter how much linear ABI versioning
> > sucks, it's possibly the only way to solve this in a reasonably usable
> > manners. Distros would just have to suck it up and agree that if they
> > cherry-pick an ABI changing patch, they must update the entire ABI to
> > the newer upstream ABI version.
> >   
> >     
>
> Can we somehow utilize the save/restore versioning infrastructure?  I
> think the general idea of universally versioning devices is not a bad
> one but I'm not sure whether we need an additional version id or whether
> we can just piggy back on the savevm version.
>   

The savevm version can be updated due to fixes in the savevm protocol 
that don't affect the guest visible information at all.

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