[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Transfer inactive XML among cookie

[Eric Blake]

On 09/15/2011 08:38 AM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> So the max size of string is 65K. BUT, because we don't sent 2 XML in
> one RPC I don't think we are gonna hit that limit soon. My patch sent
> domain XML among with cookie which is small, not 2 XMLs at the same
> time. Right now, at the finish phase - which is the place where I send
> domain xml - the size of cookie is 222B + sizeof(domain name).
>
> Therefore I think there is no need to increase the bound for string.

Thanks; that answered my concerns.  By sending the original xml between 
begin/prepare, but the persistent xml in the cookie between 
perform/finish, you've split the work, so that neither send is 
inordinately large.  No problem then, and I was over-reacting :)

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