On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 12:48 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > From: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> > > Add the specification for a new migration stream format. The document > includes all the details but to summarize: > > The existing (legacy) format is dependant on the word size of the > toolstack. This prevents domains from migrating from hosts running > 32-bit toolstacks to hosts running 64-bit toolstacks (and vice-versa). > > The legacy format lacks any version information making it difficult to > extend in compatible way. > > The new format has a header (the image header) with version information, > a domain header with basic information of the domain and a stream of > records for the image data. > > The format will be used for future domain types (such as on ARM). > > The specification is pandoc format (an extended markdown format) and the > documentation build system is extended to support pandoc format documents. > > Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vra...@citrix.com> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
Without reading: Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> With two minor comments: > diff --git a/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc > b/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..455d1ce > --- /dev/null > +++ b/docs/specs/libxc-migration-stream.pandoc > @@ -0,0 +1,672 @@ > +% LibXenCtrl Domain Image Format > +% David Vrabel <<david.vra...@citrix.com>> > + Andrew Cooper <<andrew.coop...@citrix.com>> > +% Draft G No longer a draft? Perhaps s/Draft/Version/? > +Integer fields in the domain header and in the records are in the > +endianess described in the image header (which will typically be the endianness. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
