[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: Fix (managed)save and snapshots with host mode CPU

Jiri Denemark jdenemar at redhat.com
Tue Mar 13 07:04:26 UTC 2012


On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 17:32:45 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 08:31 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote:
> > When host-model and host-passthrouh CPU modes were introduced, qemu
> > driver was properly modify to update guest CPU definition during
> > migration so that we use the right CPU at the destination. However,
> > similar treatment is needed for (managed)save and snapshots since they
> > need to save the exact CPU so that a domain can be properly restored.
> > To avoid repetition of such situation, all places that need live XML
> > share the code which generates it.
> > 
> > As a side effect, this patch fixes error reporting from
> > qemuDomainSnapshotWriteMetadata().
> > ---
> >  src/conf/domain_conf.c    |    3 ++-
> >  src/qemu/qemu_domain.c    |   23 +++++++++++++++++++----
> >  src/qemu/qemu_domain.h    |    4 ++++
> >  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c    |    9 +++------
> >  src/qemu/qemu_migration.c |    8 ++------
> >  5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
> 
> I haven't tested this as much as I'd like, but by inspection, it looks
> right, and I'd rather get it in now so we maximize our testing time.

I tested managedsave and basic snapshot of a running domain and all was
working fine. However, snapshots are so complicated I didn't even try to test
all possibilities there.

> ACK.

Thanks and pushed.

Jirka




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