Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V2 5/5] vga-cirrus: Workaround during restore when using Xen.

[Jan Kiszka]

On 2012-01-09 16:25, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Sun, 8 Jan 2012, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 01/06/2012 04:40 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>>> Avi, if you think that early_savevm is a decent solution, we'll start
>>> working on it. 
>>
>> I don't like early_savevm because it complicates life for devices, for
>> what is a localized problem.  But if everything else is even more
>> complicated maybe we should do it.
> 
> I have been thinking more about this issue but unfortunately I cannot
> come up with anything better than early_savevm.

And I do not yet see the impact of the early_savevm concept on devices.
Its point is to have some vmstate that is unrelated, actually predates
any device creation (during restore).

Jan

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