Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] migration: Append JSON description of migration stream

2015-01-20 Thread Amit Shah
On (Fri) 26 Dec 2014 [15:42:47], Alexander Graf wrote: > One of the annoyances of the current migration format is the fact that > it's not self-describing. In fact, it's not properly describing at all. > Some code randomly scattered throughout QEMU elaborates roughly how to > read and write a strea

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] migration: Append JSON description of migration stream

2015-01-06 Thread Alexander Graf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06.01.15 16:56, Eric Blake wrote: > On 12/26/2014 07:42 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> One of the annoyances of the current migration format is the fact >> that it's not self-describing. In fact, it's not properly >> describing at all. Some code ran

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] migration: Append JSON description of migration stream

2015-01-06 Thread Eric Blake
On 12/26/2014 07:42 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > One of the annoyances of the current migration format is the fact that > it's not self-describing. In fact, it's not properly describing at all. > Some code randomly scattered throughout QEMU elaborates roughly how to > read and write a stream of byte

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 4/5] migration: Append JSON description of migration stream

2014-12-26 Thread Alexander Graf
One of the annoyances of the current migration format is the fact that it's not self-describing. In fact, it's not properly describing at all. Some code randomly scattered throughout QEMU elaborates roughly how to read and write a stream of bytes. We discussed an idea during KVM Forum 2013 to add