Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 07/16] apic: Open-code timer save/restore

[Anthony Liguori]

On 12/15/2011 06:33 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> To enable migration between accelerated and non-accelerated APIC models,
> we will need to handle the timer saving and restoring specially and can
> no longer rely on the automatics of VMSTATE_TIMER. Specifically,
> accelerated model will not start any QEMUTimer.
>
> This patch therefore factors out the generic bits into apic_next_timer
> and introduces a post-load callback that can be implemented differently
> by both models.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka<address@hidden>

So you basically want the timer to be a dummy field for the in-kernel apic?

Can you fix this up in a pre-save routine (put QEMUTimer into a state where 
there isn't an event pending)?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori