[libvirt] managed save and autoboot

[Daniel Berteaud]

Le mardi 18 mai 2010 à 14:40 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange a écrit :
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 03:15:48PM +0200, Daniel Berteaud wrote:
> > So, it looks like there's a difference in the way libvirt starts guests
> > between autoboot and a manual virsh start.
> 
> Yep, there's a design bug in the way this is implemented in the QEMU driver.
> The code that restores the snapshot is in the qemudDomainStart() method,
> rather than qemudStartVMDaemon(). This means that when the guest is 
> autostarted, the snapshot restore is missed. 

btw, there's another bug in the managedsave function I think: it doesn't
honor the save_image_format directive in qemu.conf


Regards, Daniel

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