Re: [Qemu-devel] Snapshots not bound to an architecture?

[Anthony Liguori]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While testing the savevm/loadvm functions, I noticed that it's
> possible to attempt to load a snapshot made for entirely different
> architecture. There are a lot of warnings, of course.
>
> Could we prevent this somehow? Or is there a use case for this, for
> example loading a snapshot made on i386 to an x86_64 emulator?
>   

I think we should introduce a machine section for save/restore that 
included that information.  It should also be versioned in such a way 
that it could be incremented whenever a new piece of hardware is added 
to the default machine type.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori