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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Uri Lublin <uril@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: adding migration to/from a file
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:55:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901190055.57922.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232324325-25060-1-git-send-email-uril@redhat.com>

On Monday 19 January 2009, Uri Lublin wrote:
> Migration to file, reuses migration-to-fd.
> Migration from file, uses qemu-fopen directly.
>
> The saved state-file should be used only once and removed (or used
> with -snapshot, or a the disk-image should be copied), as the
> disk image is not saved, only the VM state.
>
> Also there is not point of doing a _live_ migration to file (except
> for debugging migration code), so I recommend to stop the VM before
> migrating its state to a file.
>
> An advantage migration-to-file over savevm/loadvm is that for the latter
> a qcow2 is a requirement, while the former works for any image-format.

Wouldn't it be better to just implement savevm to file?

Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-19  0:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-19  0:18 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: adding migration to/from a file Uri Lublin
2009-01-19  0:55 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2009-01-20 11:05   ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-20 14:06     ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-19 15:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-20 11:15   ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-20 12:15     ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-20 16:24     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-20 11:32   ` Uri Lublin
2009-01-20 11:53     ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-01-20 16:26       ` Anthony Liguori

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