[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: skip precreation of network disks

Michael Chapman mike at very.puzzling.org
Thu Mar 19 09:33:51 UTC 2015


On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Michael Chapman wrote:
> Commit cf54c60699833b3791a5d0eb3eb5a1948c267f6b introduced the ability
> to create missing storage volumes during migration. For network disks,
> however, we may not necessarily be able to detect whether they already
> exist -- there is no straight-forward way to map the disk to a storage
> volume, and even if there were it's possible no configured storage pool
> actually contains the disk.
>
> It is better to assume the network disk exists in this case, rather than
> aborting the migration completely. If the volume really is missing, QEMU
> will generate an appropriate error later in the migration.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chapman <mike at very.puzzling.org>
> ---
> src/qemu/qemu_migration.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Ping?

Looks like Noel Burton-Krahn / Nick Bartos brought up the same issue on 
the list today (https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-March/msg00969.html). 
I'd be happy for either patch to go in.

- Michael




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