[libvirt] first argument in virDomainMigrate, is it free'ed?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Oct 8 16:14:09 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:08:59PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:15:08PM +0200, Stefan de Konink wrote:
> > I saw that freeing the dom after a migration takes place results in:
> > 
> > libvir: Domain error : invalid domain pointer in virDomainFree
> 
> That would be a bug ...
> 
> > Now I wonder, if this is the case, could a normale migrate function
> > 'just' be:
> > 
> > domain = virDomainMigrate(domain, ....)
> > 
> > Or is this unsafe; for example as a domain migration fails?
> 
> virDomainMigrate shouldn't free the source domain ever.  It should be
> up to the caller to free it later once they've ascertained that the
> migration was successful.

I don't see any code which free's the source domain, so I'm not sure
that's the problem.

Daniel
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