Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 0/14] Migration Stream v2

[Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 03:18:55PM +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
[...]
> 
> I care about which (hopefully singular) legacy libxl migration format
> needs to be converted, and what the new stream is going to look like.
> 
> >From my understanding (without any of your changes in place) the old
> "libxl" stream has:
> 
> * xl header
>    - contains "last boot .cfg file"
> * 'libxl bits' which are passed straight to libxc
> 
> 
> At a guess, the new stream wants to look something like:
> 
> * xl header
> * libxl header
> * libxl json "current configuration"
> * libxc bits
> * libxl xenstore key-value pairs record
> * qemu record
> 

Looks sensible to me. I hope I can manage to finish the configuration
bit when you get there. ;-)

Wei.

> where the legacy conversion script will have to deal with reframing the
> old libxc bits in terms of the new libxl stream.
> 
> ~Andrew

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