Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] COLO HA Project proposal

Hongyang Yang
2014-07-08T06:26:12Z

Hi Michael,

Thank you for paying attention on this.

On 07/08/2014 02:06 PM, Michael R. Hines wrote:
> On 07/03/2014 11:42 AM, Hongyang Yang wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if there is anyway to coordinate this between COLO, Michael
>>> Hines microcheckpointing and the two separate reverse-execution
>>> projects that also need to do some similar things.
>>> Are there any standard APIs for the heartbeet thing we can already
>>> tie into?
>>
>> Sadly we have checked MC, it does not have heartbeat support for now.
>>
>
> Right, MC by itself does not need heartbeats out-of-the box.
>
> Probably the best thing we can coordinate from MC is the part of the
> data transmission protocol and memory management - because we need

Yes, that's what we have planned.

> to make sure you guys are staying compatible with the QEMUFile
> abstraction the same way that the TCP and RDMA protocols are staying
> compatible with that abstraction.
>
> COLO should able to run over any protocol supported by QEMUFile.

Indeed.

>
> I can help with some of that...
>
> - Michael
>
> .
>

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Thanks,
Yang.