On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote: > "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilb...@redhat.com> writes: > > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> > > > > Older QEMUs dont understand the new (sub)sections that > > may be generated in the serial device. Limit their generation > > to newer machine types. > > Please explain briefly what state migration can lose with old machine > types, and how this could impact the guest. The commits adding the > subsections should have the information[*]. Pointers to them might > suffice. > > > [*] Should != do; I didn't check.
OTOH if we have flags named after specific portions we skip, and not after qemu versions, this becomes evident from code.
