Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/18] migration: dump vmstate info as a json file for static analysis

[Markus Armbruster]

Amit Shah <address@hidden> writes:

> On (Wed) 21 May 2014 [11:03:04], Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>> * Amit Shah (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>> > The idea is to be able to take a qemu binary and compare with another
>> > binary; if only fields that are instantiated are used, various
>> > invocations will have to be tried to find devices that may have
>> > broken.
>> > 
>> > An alternative way of checking only devices which have been added to
>> > the running machine can be done via a monitor command (or a parameter
>> > to the existing cmdline option).  But I'm not sure if that'll be more
>> > useful than the current one.
>> 
>> Or perhaps a way to dump that info and mask your checker with it if wanted?
>
> A 'blacklist' file, which stores names of sections that you're not
> interested in?

An error message format that lets me grep -v for sections I'm not
interested in?  Stupidest solution that could possibly work...