Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 1/1] Execute arbitrary QMP commands from command line

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Paolo Bonzini (address@hidden) wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29/01/2015 16:22, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > I'm a bit worried about whether starting an incoming migrate afterwards is
> > different in any subtle way.  I can see there are a handful of devices that
> > have 'runstate_check(RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE)' calls in, and thus I'm not sure
> > that starting a paused VM and then flipping to RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE would
> > be quite the same.
> 
> Ouch, you're right.  Especially BDRV_O_INCOMING is scary.

Yes; I've not got a clue what it's effect is, but given it's glued into
the block code I'm sure that breaking it will be subtle and nasty.  I'm
also reasonably sure it's probably going to do something different in the loadvm
case which is probably unintended.

Dave

> Paolo
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