On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:32:51AM -0500, Michael Roth wrote: > When this VMSD was introduced it's version fields were set to > sizeof(I6300State), making them essentially random from build to build, > version to version. > > To fix this, we lock in a high version id and low minimum version id to > support old->new migration from all prior versions of this device's > state. This should work since the device state has not changed since > its introduction. > > The potentially breaks migration from 1.5+ to 1.5, but since the > versioning was essentially random prior to this patch, new->old > migration was not consistently functional to begin with. > > Reported-by: Nicholas Thomas <n...@bytemark.co.uk> > Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org > Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdr...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
ACK. I guess no one uses watchdog much, or they don't try to migrate those guests :-( Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v
