Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-20 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Paolo Bonzini (pbonz...@redhat.com) wrote: > Il 15/10/2014 17:59, Juan Quintela ha scritto: > > My idea here is that, if you don't use libvirt, you just start without > > -S. > > If you don't use libvirt or any other QEMU management layer, you're not > going to do migration except for debugging

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-20 Thread Kevin Wolf
Am 15.10.2014 um 09:55 hat Juan Quintela geschrieben: > Hi > > by popular demand, and after too many time, this series. This is an > RFC to know what people think about how to use them, the interface > proposed, whatever. > [...] > > Kevin: You asked for optional sections in the past for the blo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-17 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 15/10/2014 17:59, Juan Quintela ha scritto: > My idea here is that, if you don't use libvirt, you just start without > -S. If you don't use libvirt or any other QEMU management layer, you're not going to do migration except for debugging purposes. There's just too much state going on to be abl

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/15/2014 09:59 AM, Juan Quintela wrote: >> Do we need a new monitor command that says to put the >> guest into the same state that migration said it should be in (and the >> command fails if migration was from an older source that did not send >> the subsection)? > > I think that you don't n

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-15 Thread Juan Quintela
Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/15/2014 01:55 AM, Juan Quintela wrote: >> Hi >> >> by popular demand, and after too many time, this series. This is an >> RFC to know what people think about how to use them, the interface >> proposed, whatever. >> >> * simplify optional subsections moving the "needed"

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-15 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/15/2014 01:55 AM, Juan Quintela wrote: > Hi > > by popular demand, and after too many time, this series. This is an > RFC to know what people think about how to use them, the interface > proposed, whatever. > > * simplify optional subsections moving the "needed" function to > vmstate des

[Qemu-devel] [RFC 0/7] Optional toplevel sections

2014-10-15 Thread Juan Quintela
Hi by popular demand, and after too many time, this series. This is an RFC to know what people think about how to use them, the interface proposed, whatever. * simplify optional subsections moving the "needed" function to vmstate description. I think that this simplification makes sense by