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From: Frediano Ziglio <frediano.ziglio@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Domain Save Image Format proposal (draft B)
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:48:56 +0000
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On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 17:20 +0000, David Vrabel wrote:
> Here is a draft of a proposal for a new domain save image format.  It
> does not currently cover all use cases (e.g., images for HVM guest are
> not considered).
> 
> http://xenbits.xen.org/people/dvrabel/domain-save-format-B.pdf
> 
....
> 
> Integer fields in the domain header and in the records are in the
> endianess described in the image header (which will typically be the
> native ordering).
> 

This mean that we could have a Intel image coded in big endian format.
It's fine but we have to support native and not native images.

...

Frediano