[libvirt] [PATCH 4/1] qemu: detect incomplete save files

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Fri Sep 2 04:10:18 UTC 2011


On 09/01/2011 09:48 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:06:36PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Several users have reported problems with 'virsh start' failing because
>> it was encountering a managed save situation where the managed save file
>> was incomplete.  Be more robust to this by using two different magic
>> numbers, so that newer libvirt can gracefully handle an incomplete file
>> differently than a complete one, while older libvirt will at least fail
>> up front rather than trying to load only to have qemu fail at the end.
>>
>
>    Looks and sounds okay, ACK,

Thanks; I've now pushed 3/1 and 4/1.  And thanks to Osier for first 
suggesting the idea that turned into these patches.

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