[libvirt] Re: [PATCH v2] implement virsh dump for qemu guests

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 07/10/2009 11:26 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On second review, this does not look correct. The VM continues to run
> normally throughout any 'migrate'  operation and is never stopped, as
> this is the whole point of 'live' migration.

The reason for the 'cont' command is that the migrate operation always 
stops the VM at the end of the migration.  So the cont command is always 
necessary.

> The semantics of virDomainDumpCore (as defined by the current&  only
> impl in the Xen driver), as that the core dump operation should be
> non-live.

Actually that was done on purpose.  Should I prepare a v3 doing a stop 
before the migration, and then work out how to implement the flag?

Paolo