Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [CFR 6/10] cont command

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 06/16/2010 05:05 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>    
>> On 06/16/2010 11:25 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>      
>>>        
>>>> This is related to the commands, not QMP per se:
>>>>
>>>> Once that we are talking about "cont" command.  There are two cases that
>>>> we need to think of:
>>>>
>>>> - incoming migration:
>>>>
>>>> If you start with -incoming foo, and then run "cont" on the monitor
>>>> without having started the migration .... corruption is ensured.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> This is why '-incoming' command line arg should die, and be replaced
>>> with a 'incoming' monitor command that would simply not allow 'cont'
>>> to be run until it completed.
>>>
>>> For that matter, even with '-incoming' arg on command line we could
>>> refuse to honour 'cont' until the incoming migration had been done.
>>>
>>>        
>> If we had an incoming migration command, I think we'd have to think
>> careful about it's semantics.  Is it reasonable to allow a machine
>> that's otherwise running to do an incoming command?
>>      
> It is the same problem that loadvm.
>
> And no, loadvm several times don't work well either.
>    

It's supposed to.  If it doesn't, then there's a bug somewhere.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Later, Juan.
>
>