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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

On 09/12/2010 08:28 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 09/12/2010 03:06 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> Backing files and logical size shouldn't change during live migration.
>
> Why not?

To make our lives easier.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>>
>> But even so, I think the interface make sense.  It's basically, drop 
>> anything you have cached that may change during migration.  What 
>> needs to be read is dependent on features/format.
>
> Sure.  Certainly as an incremental step.
>