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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>,
	Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	David Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	qemu devel list <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] pflash (UEFI varstore) migration shortcut for libvirt
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:13:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <541BE595.6090905@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <541BD1BC.8090501@ozlabs.ru>

Il 19/09/2014 08:48, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> Right now we use NVRAM on sPAPR as:
> -drive id=id3,if=none,file=qemu_nvram.img
> -global spapr-nvram.drive=id3
> 
> So the NVRAM file is BlockDriverState and HMP's "migrate -b" copies the
> content just fine.
> 
> What is missing here? Thanks.

"migrate -b" is a big hammer, because it transfers all disks.  In some
cases it is useful to have shared storage for disks and non-shared
storage for variable stores.

For UEFI, we are using RAM migration to transfer non-volatile RAM from
the source to the destination.  This is done by loading the whole
contents of nvram into a RAM MemoryRegion at VM startup, and storing it
at postload time.  The latter is done with this patch.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-19  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-23 10:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] pflash (UEFI varstore) migration shortcut for libvirt Laszlo Ersek
2014-08-23 10:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] pflash_cfi01: fixup stale DPRINTF() calls Laszlo Ersek
2014-08-23 10:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] pflash_cfi01: write flash contents to bdrv on incoming migration Laszlo Ersek
2014-08-25 10:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] pflash (UEFI varstore) migration shortcut for libvirt Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19  6:48   ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-09-19  8:13     ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-08-27  8:58 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2014-08-27  9:21   ` Laszlo Ersek
2014-09-01 15:53 ` Stefan Hajnoczi

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