Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for Feb 15

[Amit Shah]

On (Wed) 16 Feb 2011 [08:41:27], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 02/16/2011 08:39 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >On (Tue) 15 Feb 2011 [17:13:13], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>On 02/15/2011 10:26 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
> >>>revisit new ->   old migration
> >>>- Amit offers virtio-serial patches and some legwork
> >>So, to me, migration correctness trumps compatibility.  I don't
> >>think compatibility is useful if it means that a guest may fail
> >>during migration.  We have subsections as a way to support the cases
> >>where it's safe to migrate to an old version only if a feature is
> >>not being used or a corner case is not currently happening.  This is
> >>the best way to approach the problem.
> >>
> >>If a subsection won't work, that means you want to migrate when
> >>you're completely sure that migrating will break a guest.  That
> >>doesn't seem reasonable at all to me.
> >>
> >>I think in the last discussion on Amit's patches, I had suggested
> >>that subsections could be used to allow migration when there wasn't
> >>any queued data.  I think this is the best we can do while
> >>preserving correctness.
> >The only problem is that virtio hasn't been converted over to vmstate,
> >which is necessary for subsections.
> 
> Then it needs to be converted.

But that can't be done for 0.14.

                Amit