Saved State Compatibility and Versioning

The partition and virtual processor state that is saved from one version of the hypervisor is not guaranteed to be compatible with future versions of the hypervisor. Attempts will be made to minimize version incompatibilities.

Some differences between hardware platforms also introduce saved state incompatibilities. Therefore, you might not be able to save a partition's state on one physical computer and restore it on a second physical computer with sufficiently different hardware.

The list of potential incompatibilities is not architecturally defined, However, the following list provides some potential examples of hardware incompatibilities that might result in an inability to save and restore:

• Virtual processors that execute real-mode code on CPUs that are developed by Intel might not be restorable on CPUs that are developed by AMD.

• Partitions that execute on logical processors that support various guest-visible features (for example, 3DNow!, SSE3, and so on.) might not be restorable on a computer whose logical processors do not support these features.

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Build date: 11/16/2013