Re: VM id in KVM?

[Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Carsten Otte wrote:
>> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>>  From a Linux point of view, the pid identifies the VM.  A 
>>> management application can, however, use its own VM identifiers as 
>>> it sees fit, and map the (possibly persistent, gloablly unique, and 
>>> ridiculously long) VMID to the pid.
>> It might be preferable to have something that is persistent over 
>> guest migration. Makes life easier for the management application as 
>> far as I see.
>
> It may make sense to add a vmid to qemu (or to keep it in the 
> management application entirely).  Certainly the kernel doesn't need 
> to know about it.
>

I take it back.  The only entity that can enforce uniqueness is the 
management application, therefore that should be the entity that knows 
about them.

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