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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20171116151419.694-1-anthony.perard@citrix.com> (Anthony
	PERARD's message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2017 15:14:19 +0000")
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 for-2.11] migration,
 xen: Fix block image lock issue on live migration
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To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com> wrote:
> When doing a live migration of a Xen guest with libxl, the images for
> block devices are locked by the original QEMU process, and this prevent
> the QEMU at the destination to take the lock and the migration fail.
>
> From QEMU point of view, once the RAM of a domain is migrated, there is
> two QMP commands, "stop" then "xen-save-devices-state", at which point a
> new QEMU is spawned at the destination.
>
> Release locks in "xen-save-devices-state" so the destination can takes
> them, if it's a live migration.
>
> This patch add the "live" parameter to "xen-save-devices-state" which
> default to true so older version of libxenlight can work with newer
> version of QEMU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
> ---
> Changes in V2:
> - add the live parameter
>
> CC: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
>
> also CCing libxl maintainers:
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>

Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
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