Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/8] spice-qemu-char: Register interface on post load

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 03/14/13 17:36, Hans de Goede wrote:
> From: Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
> 
> The target has not seen the guest_connected event via
> spice_chr_guest_open or spice_chr_write, and so spice server wrongly
> assumes there is no agent active, while the client continues to send
> motion events only by the agent channel, which the server ignores. The
> net effect is that the mouse is static in the guest.
> 
> By registering the interface on post load spice server will pass on the
> agent messages fixing the mouse behavior after migration.

> +static VMStateDescription spice_chr_vmstate = {
> +    .name               = "spice-chr",
> +    .version_id         = 1,
> +    .minimum_version_id = 1,
> +    .post_load          = spice_chr_post_load,
> +    .fields = (VMStateField[]) {
> +        VMSTATE_UINT32(guest_open, SpiceCharDriver),
> +        VMSTATE_END_OF_LIST()
> +    },
> +};

> +    vmstate_register(NULL, -1, &spice_chr_vmstate, s);
> +

That is a showstopper.  If there are two of these there is no reliable
way to figure which is which.

Do we actually need that in the first place?  I assume virtio-serial
will migrate the guest-open state anyway.  So if we can use that somehow
we don't have to live migrate the chardev state ...

cheers,
  Gerd