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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks

Paolo Bonzini writes ("Re: [PATCH] Fix restore handling checks"):
> We tried to get that to work, and we could not really find a device 
> error that worked reliably in the guests.  We often got infinite loops 
> on mount or little after that, on both Linux and Windows.

That's fine.  If the admins don't want that then they can use SCSI or
PV or simply not tell the guest to write to the device.

Disallowing the configuration entirely just because the error handling
is suboptimal (but safe!) is not correct.

Ian.

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