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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH V2 0/3] IXGBE/VFIO: Add live migration support for
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On 12/9/2015 7:28 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I remember reading that it's possible to implement a bus driver
> on windows if required.  But basically I don't see how windows can be
> relevant to discussing guest driver patches. That discussion
> probably belongs on the qemu maling list, not on lkml.

I am not sure whether we can write a bus driver for Windows to support
migration. But I think device vendor who want to support migration will 
improve their driver if we provide such framework in the
hypervisor which just need them to change their driver.
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