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From: Alex Young <alex@bytemark.co.uk>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] 9p and savevm'd snapshots
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 09:36:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDCBF7E.3080601@bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DDBFAC3.9060204@codemonkey.ws>

On 24/05/11 19:36, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/24/2011 03:54 AM, Alex Young wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I'm having a problem with 9p virtfs mounts going away when I savevm,
>> quit, then restart with -loadvm. The mount seems to cause the guest
>> kernel to hang if I interact with it in any way that causes a stat(2).
>> I'm also unable to mount a 9p filesystem after a snapshot restart.
>>
>> Is this expected, or should they work?  I'm using qemu version 0.14.50,
>> and this happens at least with kernel versions 2.6.32 and 2.6.38 in a
>> Debian Squeeze guest.
> 
> virtio-9p doesn't currently support savevm which means it doesn't work
> with migration or savevm/loadvm.
> 

Ah, thanks.  Is that a "can never work with the current implementation,"
or "can work but nobody's got round to it yet"?

-- 
Alex

      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24  8:54 [Qemu-devel] 9p and savevm'd snapshots Alex Young
2011-05-24 18:36 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-25  8:36   ` Alex Young [this message]

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