[libvirt] [PATCH 11/19] qemu: Migration job on source daemon

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 01:34:16AM +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> Make MIGRATION_OUT use the new helper methods.
> 
> This also introduces new protection to migration v3 process: the
> migration job is held from Begin to Confirm to avoid changes to a domain
> during migration (esp. between Begin and Perform phases). This change,
> however brings a small issue when Prepare step fails during normal (not
> p2p or tunneled) migration when old client talks to new libvirtd. The
> old client doesn't call Confirm (with cancelled == 1) to end the
> migration job. I'm open to suggestions how to solve this in the best
> way. My idea is to use flags for Begin3 and Perform3 that would enable
> this extra protection by moving migration job start from Perform to
> Begin phase while maintaining the old behavior if the flags are not set.
> Note that virDomainAbortJob will be able to cancel migration in any
> phase (i.e., not only in Perform phase).

What do you mean by 'old client' in this context ?  A v3 migration
client from the 0.9.3 release, or a v2 migration client from a
< 0.9.3 release 

Regards,
Daniel
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