Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Migration compatibility for serial

[Markus Armbruster]

"Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
>
> Older QEMUs dont understand the new (sub)sections that
> may be generated in the serial device.   Limit their generation
> to newer machine types.

Please explain briefly what state migration can lose with old machine
types, and how this could impact the guest.  The commits adding the
subsections should have the information[*].  Pointers to them might
suffice.


[*] Should != do; I didn't check.