Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-28 Thread Amit Shah
On (Mon) 27 Jun 2016 [08:53:47], Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Amit Shah (amit.s...@redhat.com) wrote: > > On (Tue) 21 Jun 2016 [20:13:54], Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > > > > > Hi, > > > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-27 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Amit Shah (amit.s...@redhat.com) wrote: > On (Tue) 21 Jun 2016 [20:13:54], Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > > > Hi, > > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to > > use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hoping that > > havin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-26 Thread Amit Shah
On (Tue) 21 Jun 2016 [20:13:54], Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > Hi, > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to > use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hoping that > having done that, the next trick is to nibble away at the vir

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-24 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Michael S. Tsirkin (m...@redhat.com) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 08:13:54PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > > > Hi, > > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to > > use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hoping t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 08:13:54PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > Hi, > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to > use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hoping that > having done that, the next trick is to nibble away a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:54:21 +0100 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: > I've just pushed it to: > https://github.com/dagrh/qemu.git > > on the virtio-mig branch, tag dag-virtio-mig-20160622 I did some managedsave/restore cycles via libvirt for the current 2.7 and the 2.4 (the oldest versioned)

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-22 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Cornelia Huck (cornelia.h...@de.ibm.com) wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:13:54 +0100 > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" wrote: > > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > > > Hi, > > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to > > use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hop

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-22 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Gerd Hoffmann (kra...@redhat.com) wrote: > Hi, > > > I think the first two patches are the most controversial; > > they remove migration support for old version of virtio-net and > > virtio-serial; > > (for virtio-net versions prior to 0.11 and for virtio-serial prior to 0.13). > > I'm workin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-22 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:13:54 +0100 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" wrote: > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" > > Hi, > This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to > use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hoping that > having done that, the next trick is to nibble away at t

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-21 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > I think the first two patches are the most controversial; > they remove migration support for old version of virtio-net and virtio-serial; > (for virtio-net versions prior to 0.11 and for virtio-serial prior to 0.13). > I'm working on the basis that migration has bit rotted enough so > tha

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate

2016-06-21 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Hi, This series converts the outer most layer of virtio to use VMState macros; this is the easy bit, but I'm hoping that having done that, the next trick is to nibble away at the virtio_save/load functions and all of the zillions of device/bus helpers. I think t