Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vmstate: Add VMSTATE_OPAQUE to save/load complex data structures

[Roman Kiryanov]

Hi Peter,

> In any case, migration state on the wire needs to be
> architecture/endianness/

Could you please point how the proposed change is
architecture/endianness/ dependent?

> implementation-independent,

Could you please elaborate, what "implementation"
you mean here?

> so you can't just send raw complex data structures

Do we need to serialize (in pre_save and then release in
post_save) our state into a buffer and to write it as one
piece using the existing macro? This looks ok, but how
is this different from what we are doing?

Regards,
Roman.