Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: optional feature

[Anthony Liguori]

Gleb Natapov wrote:
> I don't know virtio enough to understand all those things below. I am
> asking what is wrong about how RTC did it? You don't need if's or
> whiles. You have general RTC sate in one table and things that needed by
> rtc-td-hack in another table.

The only awkward bit is that we want to connect the savevm state to a 
qdev device.  Ideally, each qdev device would have a single table of state.

>  From vmstate point of view those are not
> connected. Serialization/deserialization should support matching of
> incomming binary blob to deserialize function.

With vmstate, we're moving away from the notion of blobs and 
serialization functions.  Instead, for a given qdev device, vmstate 
describes it's state in a table.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori