Re: [Qemu-devel] Are VM snapshots on Ubuntu host compatible with Fedora host?

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 01/04/2008, David Barrett <address@hidden> wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>  > David Barrett wrote:
>  >> Following up on this, I created a brand-new WinXP image from scratch
>  >> (on my Ubuntu box), uploaded to my headless Fedora box, and it still
>  >> has the  exact same crash:
>  >>
>  >> qemu: warning: error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram'
>  >> qemu: fatal: triple fault
>  >>
>  >> So is it safe to say that QEMU VM snapshots are not transferable
>  >> between hosts?
>  >
>  > KVM images are not compatible with QEMU.  If one of your servers is
>  > running KVM, that's likely your problem.
>
>
> Ahh, very interesting.
>
>  Just to make sure I understand correctly, this means VM snapshots made
>  when QEMU has KQEMU enabled will not transfer between machines, right?

No, as long as you are using qemu (with kqemu or without) an image
should run identically on any host. Unless you're using kvm on one of
the hosts, what you're seeing is some bug.

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