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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix migration of old pseries


From: David Gibson
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix migration of old pseries
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:11:47 +1100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30)

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:32:11PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> QEMU 2.4 broke the migration of old pseries machine with the addition
> of configuration sections, which are sent unconditionally.
> 
> We assume that QEMU 2.3 is more deployed than any newer release (based on
> the versions currently shipped by most distros). This v3 series hence
> reverses the logic from v2: it now fully fixes migration of old pseries
> from/to QEMU 2.3 and provides a manual workaround for the QEMU 2.4/2.4.1/2.5
> case.
> 
> With this series, I could migrate the same pseries-2.3 instance in a full
> 2.3->2.6->2.5->2.6->2.4->2.6->2.3 cycle.

Sorry, I've lost track slightly here.  Does this series apply on top
of, or instead of your earlier series that peeks for the config
section?

> ---
> 
> Greg Kurz (2):
>       spapr: skip configuration section during migration of older machines
>       migration: allow machine to enforce configuration section migration
> 
> 
>  hw/core/machine.c   |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c      |    1 +
>  include/hw/boards.h |    1 +
>  migration/savevm.c  |   10 ++++++++--
>  qemu-options.hx     |    3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 

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