[libvirt] [PATCH] Add support for disabling S3 and S4 states

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:54:34PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 04:48 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 02:43:33PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >> On 07/30/2012 02:33 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 02:25:04PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> >>>> There a two new elements in <features> implemented, which control what
> >>>> ACPI sleeping states will be advertised. The default is to have both
> >>>> states enabled, so this means no change for current machines.
> >>>
> >>>> diff --git a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
> >>>> index b7562ad..859cb26 100644
> >>>> --- a/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
> >>>> +++ b/docs/schemas/domaincommon.rng
> >>>> @@ -2788,6 +2788,16 @@
> >>>>                <empty/>
> >>>>              </element>
> >>>>            </optional>
> >>>> +          <optional>
> >>>> +            <element name="disable_s3">
> >>>> +              <empty/>
> >>>> +            </element>
> >>>> +          </optional>
> >>>> +          <optional>
> >>>> +            <element name="disable_s4">
> >>>> +              <empty/>
> >>>> +            </element>
> >>>> +          </optional>
> >>>>          </interleave>
> >>>>        </element>
> >>>>      </optional>
> >>>
> >>> This is not very nice design.  With this if an app wants to request
> >>> S3, and have an error if it is not supported, they can't do that.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand what do you mean. If the guest
> >> wants to go to S3, there is (of course) no difference between the state
> >> not being supported or the support being disabled. If an application
> >> wants to request the guest to go to S3 through libvirt, then it will get
> >> an appropriate message (disabled/not supported). Having one more option
> >> means just setting the QEMU parameter to the default value (0).
> > 
> > I'm talking about the host mgmt's POV. An application creating a guest
> > may want to guarantee that S3 is available to the guest. With your
> > proposal, there is no way they can do that - since there is no explicit
> > element in the XML to request S3. So the mgmt app may get a guest with
> > S3, or it may not - it has no way of being sure. The only thing a mgmt
> > app can do is forcably disable S3 .
> > 
> 
> Oh, yes, I get it now. Unfortunately, that is true. Sadly, the only
> thing I see we can do with QEMU is set the disable_s[34] parameter(s) to
> zero, but that won't guarantee anything, I guess. Global parameters are
> valid even if they don't make sense or they don't exist, so even
> "qemu-kvm -global a.s=df" is a valid command-line.

Well regardless, that is a QEMU bug - please report it to the QEMU
developer mailing list. libvirt needs to find a way to detct whether
S3 is available and report CONFIG_NOT_SUPPORTED, even if we just do
this based on version number.

Daniel
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