[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] qemu and qemu.git -> Migration + disk stress introduces qcow2 corruptions

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 01:11:42PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 12:42 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 12:27:30PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>What does libvirt actually do in the monitor prior to migration
> >>completing on the destination?  The least invasive way of doing
> >>delayed open of block devices is probably to make -incoming create a
> >>monitor and run a main loop before the block devices (and full
> >>device model) is initialized.  Since this isolates the changes
> >>strictly to migration, I'd feel okay doing this for 1.0 (although it
> >>might need to be in the stable branch).
> >
> >The way migration works with libvirt wrt QEMU interactions is now
> >as follows
> >
> >  1. Destination.
> >        Run   qemu -incoming ...args...
> >        Query chardevs via monitor
> >        Query vCPU threads via monitor
> >        Set disk / vnc passwords
> 
> Since RHEL carries Juan's patch, and Juan's patch doesn't handle
> disk passwords gracefully, how does libvirt cope with that?

No idea, that's the first I've heard of any patch that causes
problems with passwords in QEMU.

Daniel
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