Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH qemu] qapi: Add query-memory-checksum

[Markus Armbruster]

Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> writes:

> This returns MD5 checksum of all RAM blocks for migration debugging
> as this is way faster than saving the entire RAM to a file and checking
> that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden>

Any particular reason for MD5?  Have you measured the other choices
offered by GLib?

I understand you don't need crypto-strength here.  Both MD5 and SHA-1
would be bad choices then.