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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: QEMU bumping memory bug analysis
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:14:11 +0100
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On 06/05/2015 06:10 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> 5. Add a user configurable field in current libxl JSON structure to
>>    record how much more memory this domain needs. Admin is required to
>>    fill in that value manually. In the mean time we revert the change in
>>    QEMU and declare QEMU with that change buggy.
> 
> QEMU 2.3.0 was released with that change in it, so it is not quite
> possible to revert it. 

This is at least one reason it should never have been in qemu in the
first place, and why we should deprecate that as soon as possible.

 -George