Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Migration via unix sockets.

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 08/10/2009 01:23 PM, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> Chris Lalancette wrote:
>    
>> Implement migration via unix sockets.  While you can fake this using
>> exec and netcat, this involves forking another process and is
>> generally not very nice.  By doing this directly in qemu, we can avoid
>> the copy through the external nc command.  This is useful for
>> implementations (such as libvirt) that want to do "secure" migration;
>> we pipe the data on the sending side into the unix socket, libvirt
>> picks it up, encrypts it, and transports it, and then on the remote
>> side libvirt decrypts it, dumps it to another unix socket, and
>> feeds it into qemu.
>>
>> The implementation is straightforward and looks very similar to
>> migration-exec.c and migration-tcp.c
>>      
>
> ping?
>    

It would be nice to support migration via arbitrary fd using the recent 
SCM_RIGHTS support.

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