On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:11:20PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > ... to make vmstate id string truely unique with multiple host > controllers, i.e. move from "1/usb-ptr" to "0000:00:01.3/1/usb-ptr" > (usb tabled connected to piix3 uhci). > > Obvious problem with that is that it breaks migration from and to older > versions, thats why it is RfC. I don't see any way to fix the issue > without breaking though. So the question is how to deal with that best?
How about keeping the original naming *only* for devices on the first USB controller. Since it was impossible to start a QEMU process with 2 USB controllers, migration compatibility does not matter for the naming of devices on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th.... controller. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|
