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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Or Idgar <idgar@virtualoco.com>
Cc: ben@skyportsystems.com, dgilbert@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com,
	imammedo@redhat.com, eblake@redhat.com, armbru@redhat.com,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, ghammer@redhat.com,
	Or Idgar <oridgar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] vmgenid: allow VM Generation ID modification via QMP/HMP
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2018 10:57:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180302105709.GD26972@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180302083720.25137-1-idgar@virtualoco.com>

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 10:37:20AM +0200, Or Idgar wrote:
> From: Or Idgar <oridgar@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch allow changing the Virtual Machine Generation
> ID through QMP/HMP while the vm guest is running.
> the spec (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=260709)
> mentions that "when the generation ID changes, execute an
> ACPI Notify operation on the generation ID device".
> To test it we need the ability to set the generation ID
> online. QMP/HMP allows that.

If we want to test vmgenid, why don't we simply trigger one of
the mgmt actions that are required to change vmgenid. eg do a
savevm, followed by a loadvm to restore from snapshot. This would
be better testing of the real world usage of this feature.

Regards,
Daniel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-03-02 10:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-02  8:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] vmgenid: allow VM Generation ID modification via QMP/HMP Or Idgar
2018-03-02  8:49 ` no-reply
2018-03-02  8:52 ` no-reply
2018-03-02  8:53 ` no-reply
2018-03-02  8:55 ` no-reply
2018-03-02  9:29 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-03-02  9:37 ` no-reply
2018-03-02 10:22 ` no-reply
2018-03-02 10:57 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2018-03-02 17:57   ` Benjamin Warren
2018-03-13 21:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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