Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Oct 19

Dor Laor
2010-10-19T12:49:10Z

On 10/19/2010 04:11 AM, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Juan Quintela (quintela@redhat.com) wrote:
>>
>> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
>
> - 0.13.X -stable handoff
> - 0.14 planning
> - threadlet work
> - virtfs proposals
>

- Live snapshots
- We were asked to add this feature for external qcow2
images. Will simple approach of fsync + tracking each requested
backing file (it can be per vDisk) and re-open the new image would
be accepted?
- Integration with FS freeze for consistent guest app snapshot
Many apps do not sync their ram state to disk correctly or frequent
enough. Physical world backup software calls fs freeze on xfs and
VSS for windows to make the backup consistent.
In order to integrated this with live snapshots we need a guest
agent to trigger the guest fs freeze.
We can either have qemu communicate with the agent directly through
virtio-serial or have a mgmt daemon use virtio-serial to
communicate with the guest in addition to QMP messages about the
live snapshot state.
Preferences? The first solution complicates qemu while the second
complicates mgmt.