[Qemu-devel] Re: [CFR 6/10] cont command

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 11:25 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>>> This is related to the commands, not QMP per se:
>>>
>>> Once that we are talking about "cont" command.  There are two cases that
>>> we need to think of:
>>>
>>> - incoming migration:
>>>
>>> If you start with -incoming foo, and then run "cont" on the monitor
>>> without having started the migration .... corruption is ensured.
>>>      
>> This is why '-incoming' command line arg should die, and be replaced
>> with a 'incoming' monitor command that would simply not allow 'cont'
>> to be run until it completed.
>>
>> For that matter, even with '-incoming' arg on command line we could
>> refuse to honour 'cont' until the incoming migration had been done.
>>    
>
> If we had an incoming migration command, I think we'd have to think
> careful about it's semantics.  Is it reasonable to allow a machine
> that's otherwise running to do an incoming command?

It is the same problem that loadvm.

And no, loadvm several times don't work well either.

Later, Juan.