[libvirt] [PATCH 1/2] support compression at virsh dump

[Eric Blake]

On 10/28/2010 04:26 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
>>From 4f74c4a69785432258ad5ea5e695d1b94aaa5b30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:31:46 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] add compression support for "virsh dump"
> 
> Add dump_image_format[] to qemu.conf and support compressed dump
> at virsh dump. coredump compression is important for saving disk space
> in an environment where multiple guests run.
> 
> In general, "disk space for dump" is specially allocated and will be
> a dead space in the system. It's used only at emergency. So, it's better
> to have both of save_image_format and dump_image_format. "save" is done
> in scheduled manner with enough calculated disk space for it.
> 
> This code reuses some of save_image_format[] and supports the same format.
> 
> Changelog:
>  - modified libvirtd_qemu.aug
>  - modified test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
>  - fixed error handling of qemudSaveCompressionTypeFromString()
> ---
>  src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug      |    1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu.conf              |    4 +++
>  src/qemu/qemu_conf.c            |   11 ++++++++++
>  src/qemu/qemu_conf.h            |    1 +
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c          |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug |    2 +
>  6 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

I got a failure when trying to apply this patch:

Syntax error in lens definition
Failed to load ./qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
make[3]: *** [augeas-check] Error 1

Here's what I squashed in, then pushed.

diff --git i/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug w/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
index 66994fd..78852f3 100644
--- i/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
+++ w/src/qemu/libvirtd_qemu.aug
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ module Libvirtd_qemu =
                  | str_array_entry "cgroup_controllers"
                  | str_array_entry "cgroup_device_acl"
                  | str_entry "save_image_format"
-		 | str_entry "dump_image_format"
+                 | str_entry "dump_image_format"
                  | str_entry "hugetlbfs_mount"
                  | bool_entry "relaxed_acs_check"
                  | bool_entry "vnc_allow_host_audio"
diff --git i/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
w/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
index efbf642..d3ae58d 100644
--- i/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
+++ w/src/qemu/test_libvirtd_qemu.aug
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ allow_disk_format_probing = 1
 { "#empty" }
 { "save_image_format" = "gzip" }
 { "#empty" }
+{ "dump_image_format" = "gzip" }
+{ "#empty" }
 { "hugetlbfs_mount" = "/dev/hugepages" }
 { "#empty" }
 { "set_process_name" = "1" }


-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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