Virtio-blk is a paravirtual block device based on VirtIO. It can be used by
specifying the if=virtio parameter to the -drive parameter.
When using -enable-kvm, it can achieve very good performance compared to IDE or
SCSI.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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u-boot is a firmware. uImage is an executable file format.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Return the base address at which the image was loaded so that callers may keep
track of currently occupied guest memory.
This will be required by the PPC 440 embedded code to avoid hard coding a
device model/initrd location. Other users of this function could make use of
this parameter to avoid hard coding these locations in the future too.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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The goal of this series is to move the CharDriverState code out of vl.c and
into its own file, qemu-char.c. This patch moves around some declarations so
the next patch can be pure code motion.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Tidy up win32 main loop bits, allow timeout >= 1s, and force timeout to 0 if
there is a pending bottom half.
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This patch adds an ethernet announce function that will minimize downtime
when doing a live migration. This code originates from KVM.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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The current savevm/loadvm protocol has some draw backs. It does not support
the ability to do progressive saving which means it cannot be used for live
checkpointing or migration. The sections sizes are 32-bit integers which
means that it will not function when using more than 4GB of memory for a guest.
It attempts to seek within the output file which means it cannot be streamed.
The current protocol also is pretty lax about how it supports forward
compatibility. If a saved section version is greater than what the restore
code support, the restore code generally treats the saved data as being in
whatever version it supports. This means that restoring a saved VM on an older
version of QEMU will likely result in silent guest failure.
This patch introduces a new version of the savevm protocol. It has the
following features:
* Support for progressive save of sections (for live checkpoint/migration)
* An asynchronous API for doing save
* Support for interleaving multiple progressive save sections
(for future support of memory hot-add/storage migration)
* Fully streaming format
* Strong section version checking
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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