* Samuel Thibault (samuel.thiba...@gnu.org) wrote: > Hello, > > Dr. David Alan Gilbert, on Wed 28 Sep 2016 19:00:45 +0100, wrote: > > I can see that migrating a VM with slirp makes sense (actually more > > commonly saving a VM with slirp to a file); but when that happens > > aren't you likely to lose all the network connections anyway? > > Yes. > > > If that's the case then why bother saving all the TCP state? > > Because there are not only network connections, actually the network > connections are *not* saved: slirp_state_save iterates only over > exec_list with ex_pty = 3, i.e. guestfwd to a device.
Ah! Thanks for the explanation, that makes a lot more sense. Dave > > Samuel -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilb...@redhat.com / Manchester, UK