Hi, >> ... then you don't need to fiddle with the versions as the vmstate wire >> format doesn't change then. >> > > Does that work considering you have turned one layer of VMSD into two? > Can it equivocate machines saved with the old all-in-one vmsd with > this new one that is structured in two layers?
I'm pretty sure it does as only for top-level vmsd name and version are stuffed into the wire bytestream. For sub-vmsds only the actual fields are written. So moving stuff from the toplevel vmsd into another one which then gets referenced via VMSTATE_STRUCT doesn't change the format. cheers, Gerd
