[libvirt] [PATCHv4 00/51] shared snapshot meta-data

[Philipp Hahn]

Hello,

On Friday 02 September 2011 11:57:15 Daniel Veillard wrote:
> Review:
>  29 Isn't there a way to save the domain snapshot on shared storage when
>     available to try to avoid the problem ? It wouldn't work all the
>     time but might be simpler than rolling out a v4. or consider the
>     snapshot data as extra domain resource that could be migrated on
>     the fly like we can do for disk images in some cases.

We are currently doing this and it works more or less.
1. You have to put /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/snapshot/ on a shared storage, but 
only that and not /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/ itself, because there the UNIX 
domain monitor sockets are located; if you do that, you'll get problems 
because on migration two KVM instances will use the same path name for their 
monitor sockets.
2. You have to hook qemuDomainSnapshotLoad() to qemudDomainMigrateFinish2() 
(and qemudDomainDefine()) to get already existing snapshots associated to 
newly migrated domains, either via migrate() for live domains, or via 
define() for non-live domains.
3. You need do remove the locking from qemudDomainDefine(), because the two 
functions mentioned above alread hold the domain lock.

That is what get me started to work on "Fix memory leak while scanning 
snapshots", "killall -SIGHUP libvirtd / virStateReload" and "Reload snapshots 
on SIGHUP". At leas our patched 0.8.7 is working fine with those changes.

Sincerely
Philipp
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