Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?

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Juan Quintela wrote:
> Lack of "proper" subsections.  IDE is something like:
> 
> const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive = {
>     .version_id = 4,
> ....
> }
> 
> static const VMStateDescription vmstate_bmdma = {
>     .name = "ide bmdma",
>     .version_id = 4,
> ...
> }
> 
> const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_pci = {
>     .name = "ide",
>     .version_id = 4,
> ....
>         VMSTATE_STRUCT_ARRAY(bmdma, PCIIDEState, 2, 0,
>                      vmstate_bmdma, BMDMAState),
>         VMSTATE_IDE_DRIVES(bus[0].ifs, PCIIDEState),
>         VMSTATE_IDE_DRIVES(bus[1].ifs, PCIIDEState),
> ....
> }
> 
> 
> Notice that everything is at version 4.  It used to be everything at
> version 3.  Now the problem is that when migrating from v3 -> v4.  We
> put in one place v3, But we only have a version number at the toplevel,
> rest of "subsections" don't sent a version number.  There is no way to
> fix it in the general case.  We can hack something around for ide, but
> that will just be a hack, or we can backport marcelo change and port it
> as a proper subsection (that is my plan).  I expect to have time at the
> end of next time to work on this.

BTW, the IDE subsystem is yet lacking a proper vmstate section split-up
along qdev boundaries (ie. vmstate_ide_pci should not contain drive
structures). Do you plan to address this as well?

Jan

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