Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] non-migratable devices

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> > > If desired, in the
> > > future we can revert this behavior for pc-0.14 and earlier machines.
> >
> > And I'm still looking for a sane way to handle *this*.
>
> One possibility is to add device name remapping to machine types, like
> "ide is actually ide-0.14 when using pc-0.14" and put a different
> VMState in ide-0.14.

That isn't very different from subsections.

Problem is that the old qemu version doesn't have the section at all, 
not that it looks somehow different.

cheers,
  Gerd