From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] SLIRP migration?
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:14:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160928221440.GK4316@var.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160928180044.GK2034@work-vm>
Hello,
Dr. David Alan Gilbert, on Wed 28 Sep 2016 19:00:45 +0100, wrote:
> I can see that migrating a VM with slirp makes sense (actually more
> commonly saving a VM with slirp to a file); but when that happens
> aren't you likely to lose all the network connections anyway?
Yes.
> If that's the case then why bother saving all the TCP state?
Because there are not only network connections, actually the network
connections are *not* saved: slirp_state_save iterates only over
exec_list with ex_pty = 3, i.e. guestfwd to a device.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-28 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-28 18:00 [Qemu-devel] SLIRP migration? Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-09-28 18:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2016-09-28 18:43 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-09-28 22:14 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2016-09-29 9:05 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
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