Am 07.07.2011 17:23, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > On 07/07/2011 01:02 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> I'd guess the best would be to have a special VMSTATE that means >> "broken old version doesn't send a section" which we can set for >> special -M? > > No, the best would be to have a serious migration format, based for > example on ASN.1 which Michael Tsirkin was playing with. We cannot keep > bolting more and more stuff on top of the current protocol, especially > since adding a new protocol is not that hard (old machine types can keep > the old protocol).
And even more so with the old format being ambiguous. We haven't decided yet what to do with subsections of structs, have we? Kevin
