Patch Re: [Libvir] save and restore guest

[Farkas Levente]

Farkas Levente wrote:
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:27:00PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:29:39PM +0200, Farkas Levente wrote:
>>>>> hi,
>>>>> if i use xen with xendomain it's possible to save and restore guest
>>>>> state. if i use libvirt it's not working (at least by default with kvm).
>>>>> i mean if i stop or restart libvirtd all guests a stopped and even if i
>>>>> restart libvirtd i've to start all guests manually. imho this's a very
>>>>> essential feature. what is the reason this not working with libvirtd?:
>>>>> - this feature is missing from libvirtd? or
>>>> You can set KVM/QEMU guests to autostart with
>>>>
>>>>   virsh autostart {NAME|ID|UUID}
>>> thanks, but go back to my first question. afais /etc/init.d/libvirtd
>>> simple kill libvirtd, but virsh has a command save/restore. wouldn't be
>>> it's much better to save guest's state on stop, restore on start in
>>> stead of start if there is a saved state. i can send a patch to the
>>> /etc/init.d/libvirtd, just would like to know is there any reason it's
>>> not that way? anyway xendomains do it in the save way.
>> The save/restore capability is currently only available in the KVM-ified
>> version of QEMU. We could make it try to save, and failing that destroy
>> the guest. The xendomains scripts isn't a good model to emulate though.
>> The autostart/kill functionality is part of the libvirt daemon itself. Any
>> save/restore capability would be best integrated there
> 
> for those who like to save and restore guest at libvirtd stop and start
> i attached a patch we use to for it. it's based on xen's sripts.
> LIBVIRTD_AUTO_ONLY still not implemented but the sysconfig file already
> contains it. if you like to set the default behavior to the current then
> set LIBVIRTD_RESTORE to false.
> imho it'd be useful to include in the upstream libvirtd too.
> 
and the patch:-)

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  Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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