Re: [Qemu-devel] Live migration from Qemu 2.12 hosts to Qemu 3.2 hosts, with VMX flag enabled in the guest?

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Paolo Bonzini (address@hidden) wrote:
> On 18/01/19 14:41, Mark Mielke wrote:
> > It is useful to understand the risk. However, this is the same risk we
> > have been successfully living with for several years now, and it seems
> > abrupt to declare 3.1 and 3.2 as the Qemu version beyond which migration
> > requires a whole cluster restart whether or not a L2 guest had been, or
> > will ever be started on any of the guests.
> 
> Only if nested was enabled for the kvm_intel module.  If you didn't
> enable it, you didn't see any change with 3.1.
> 
> Nested was enabled for kvm_amd years ago.  It was a mistake, but that's
> why we didn't add such a blocker for AMD.

Still, it should have probably been machine-type tied;  there's lots and
lots of broken things we've done in the past which we've kept
compatibility with on old machine types.

Dave

> Paolo
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