[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: mkdir memory_backing_dir on startup

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed May 31 13:00:49 UTC 2017


On Sat, 2017-05-27 at 12:45 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> In 48d9e6cdcc and friends we've allowed users to back guest
> memory by a file inside the host. And in order to keep things
> manageable the memory_backing_dir variable was introduced to
> qemu.conf to specify the directory where the files are kept.
> However, libvirt's policy is that directories are created on
> domain startup if they don't exist. We've missed this one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

ACK and safe for freeze.

Wouldn't mind it if you provided a very brief entry in the
release notes, too ;)

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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