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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] make windows notice media change


From: Paul Brook
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] make windows notice media change
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:11:38 +0100
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> Why shouldn't we support loading version 2 snapshots? Afterall that's
> why we had the versioning in the first place.

No it's not. Versioning was introduced to *prevent* loading old snapshots and 
crashing or ending up with inconsistent guest state. I'm still unconvinced 
that anything other than very short term backward compatibility is worthwhile 
or even viable.

Paul




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