[Libvir] Restarting of libvirt_qemud daemon

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 02:02:55PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:47:18AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>>Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>>>Thinking about later RPM upgrades I think we need to think about 
> >>>>whether it
> >>>>will be possible to restart the libvirt_qemud while guests & 
> >>>>networks are
> >>>>running. There's a couple of issues:
> >>>>
> >>>>- We do waitpid() to cleanup qemu & dnsmasq processes when we stop 
> >>>>domains
> >>>>  & networks, or to detect when they crash. For the former, we could 
> >>>>may
> >>>>  they daemons to avoid waitpid() cleanup, but we'd still need 
> >>>>waitpid to
> >>>>  be able to detect shutdowns. There is also the issue of enumerating
> >>>>  running instances.
> >>>Maybe I'm missing something big here, but how would libvirt_qemud 
> >>>regain connections to the running qemu monitor ptys?
> >>
> >>That's one of the challenges to be addressed :-)  Fortunately the monitor
> >>is set to be exposed via /dev/pty/XXX, so if the restarted client can
> >>find out the path to the PTY, then it can re-open it. Maybe we just need
> >>to record a state file somewhere containing a PID & PTY path. 
> >
> >Is it possible to start qemu with something like:
> >
> >  qemu -monitor pipe:/var/some/known/place/pipe.UUID
> >
> >and then just look in /var/some/known/place/ in order to find the 
> >running instances?
> 
> I should add a note that you can tell if the qemu at the other end of 
> the pipe has died by opening the pipe and writing something, for example 
> a NO-OP command.  If you get EPIPE (or SIGPIPE if you weren't careful to 
> disable the signal) you can delete the pipe device.

Yes, that could be a very useful way to detect guest shutdown without
needing to maintain the PPID<->PID  relationship & waitpid(). Definitely
something to experiment with in the near future.

Dan.
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