[libvirt] [PATCH] Better error reporting for failed migration.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:26:38AM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> The comment in the code says most of it, but when the destination
> hostname resolution is screwed up, print a proper error instead
> of the very unhelpful "unknown error".
> 
> Note that I'm not overly fond of the wording in the error message,
> so I'm open to suggestions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> index d37b184..02bb5cb 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> @@ -6288,6 +6288,22 @@ qemudDomainMigratePrepare2 (virConnectPtr dconn,
>              goto cleanup;
>          }
>  
> +        /* Remember that we are running on the destination.  The hostname that
> +         * we resolve here will be used on the source machine in the "migrate"
> +         * monitor command.  Because of that, localhost is almost always the
> +         * wrong thing.  Adding this check explicitly breaks localhost
> +         * migration, but only for those machines that have improperly
> +         * configured hostname resolution.
> +         */

NB, localhost migration has never worked, nor do we intend it to. You
will certainly deadlock libvirtd if you tried it with tunnelled migration
We should in fact try to protect against this in the 'perform' method.
After opening the libvirtd connection to the dest, it shoud call the
virGetHotsname(dconn) and compare it to virGetHostname(conn) and reject
it if it is the same


> +        if (STREQ(hostname, "localhost")) {
> +            VIR_FREE(hostname);
> +            qemudReportError(dconn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INVALID_ARG, "%s",
> +                             _("Could not resolve destination hostname; "
> +                               "either fix destination to resolve hostname, "
> +                               "or use the optional URI migration parameter"));
> +            goto cleanup;
> +        }
> +

I think I'd be inclined to actually resolve the hostname, and then
check it agaist  127.0.0.1  and ::1. You can get quite a few variations
which ultimtely might point to localhost.



Daniel
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