On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 01/24/2012 12:21 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > >>> > > >>> But viewing RAM as just another device, having Xen only restore a > > >>> subset of > > >>> devices should be a reasonable thing to do moving forward. > > > > I don't think modeling device memory (i.e. vga vram) as something > > independent from the device (vga) is a good idea. Because it isn't. > > Right. We should have VMSTATE_RAM() to express the dependency.
So if I understand correctly you are planning on removing the call to vmstate_register_ram_global in hw/vga.c? In that case it might be better if I wait for your "VMSTATE_RAM" patch before I can send a new patch to save only non-RAM devices, because I guess they will clash with one another.
