On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:12 PM, George Dunlap <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com> wrote: > > I've just had a chat with Stefano, and it turns out I was a bit > confused -- this change has nothing to do with qemu running as a > device model, but only as qemu running as a PV back-end for PV guests. > So the question of when in the save/restore process the qemu is > started is moot.
Alex, the title of the changelog should certainly be more specific, so people aren't confused. Maybe something like the following? "Disable use of O_DIRECT when acting as a Xen PV backend" And emphasizing in the changelog that this has no effect on qemu when acting as a device model for Xen? -George