On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:57:48PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:52:40PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:45:59PM +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:36:26PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > No, I think Avi was right the first time. > > > > > > > > > > Migrating from an older qemu will be fine at first, but at the next > > > > > reset _following_ migration, it'll be running the old BIOS on a new > > > > > qemu and fail. > > > > > > > > > > -- Jamie > > > > > > > > So after discussion with Gleb, it seems that what will happen > > > > after migration to new qemu, old BIOS is shadowed, but memory > > > > is already enabled. After reset, new BIOS will be shadowed > > > > and it will enable memory. Makes sense? > > > > > > > I don't see how you made this conclusion after the discussion. > > > What should happen is after migration old bios should be used until reboot. > > > After reboot new bios should be used. > > > > I think that's what I said. > > > First shadowing bios has nothing to do with it. Second what do you mean > by "will happen"? That is how code works now or that is how it should > work? I am not sure this is how it works. No, this is not how it works, I think. Currently BIOS ROM is loaded only on init, directly into qemu memory. BTW, I don't think it's write-protected and it probably should be? > > -- > Gleb. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html