[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Check for ejected media during startup and migration

[Eric Blake]

On 09/13/2011 05:03 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 10:14 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> If the daemon is restarted so we reconnect to monitor, cdrom media
>> can be ejected. In that case we don't want to show it in domain xml,
>> or require it on migration destination.
>>
>> To check for disk status use 'info block' monitor command.
>
> Yuck - this is still polling-based (we have to ask qemu every time we
> want to dumpxml). Whatever happened to the proposal of having
> interrupt-based cdrom events, where qemu sends an event any time the
> virtual tray changes state (whether by monitor command or
> guest-initiated), and libvirt monitors those events to update its
> internal state at that time, so that libvirt's internal state is always
> accurate?

For reference:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-August/msg00487.html

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