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Bug#578005: Please consider backporting KVM_GET/SET_CLOCK to 2.6.32



On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 03:41 +0300, Faidon Liambotis wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-11
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch, fixed-upstream
> 
> Hi,
[...]
> IOW, the API greatly helps KVM live migrations. Without it, there are fair
> chances that after the migration the guest will crash. The API is used by
> qemu-kvm >= 0.12.1 and 0.12.3 is currently in squeeze.

This is definitely worthwhile but it does involve an ABI bump.  So we
will probably wait for a convenient time to do that.

[...]
> BTW, while you're at it, perhaps you should have a look at the, also trivial,
> 3cfc3092f40bc37c57ba556cfd8de4218f2135ab (“KVM: x86: Add
> KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTS”) too.

The same goes for that.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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