Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/5] slirp: VMStatify socket level

[Samuel Thibault]

Dr. David Alan Gilbert, on mar. 28 févr. 2017 17:40:19 +0000, wrote:
> * Samuel Thibault (address@hidden) wrote:
> > Dr. David Alan Gilbert, on mar. 28 févr. 2017 17:09:26 +0000, wrote:
> > > but only for Linux.
> > 
> > That's what I was referring to.
> 
> Yes I think that's OK because:
>    a) The alternative breaks all backwards migration
>    b) This doesn't casuse any problem for forward migration
> 
> There is another way, we could add a subsection that's sent whenever
> we use non-IPv4; that would (probably) fail noisily on a backwards
> migration to an old setup.  But IMHO it's not worth it in this case
> given how rare a backwards migration of an IPv6 slirp connection on
> something other than Linux is.

Alright.

Samuel