[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu driver: sync guest time via qemu-guest-agent when domain is resumed

Marcelo Tosatti mtosatti at redhat.com
Wed Feb 12 20:47:51 UTC 2014


On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:45:28PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 10:22:11AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > I agree that this should be a completely separate command, not
> > merely a flag to the Resume API.  The reason is that you cannot
> > do sensible error reporting if you overload this in one API
> > call.  ie consider that resuming the CPUs succeeds, but syncing
> > time fails. If you return "success" to the caller you are lieing
> > about the result of time sync. If you return "error" to the caller
> > you are lieing about the result of resuming the CPUs.
> > 
> > If there is a separate API to invoke then the caller can clearly
> > see which operation succeeded vs failed.
> 
> Well then just require a new guest agent command. No need
> for a separate command.
> 
> Going from "resume" to "resume-and-sync" versus
> 
> Going from "resume" to "resume; send-guest-agent-command" 
> 
> Is not very different is it? In both cases qemu guest agent channel 
> must be operational.

Well doh which fails to hide QEMU. Ok then, resume-and-sync-time
command.

> I'll go write a virsh alias and virt-manager patch.
> 
> (BTW, error reporting would be in the libvirt logs,
> GuestAgentError with all the details why time-sync failed).




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