From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43113) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R48M2-0008At-QK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:35:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R48M1-0007QV-UX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:35:34 -0400 Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com ([74.125.82.53]:48283) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R48M1-0007QL-NM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 05:35:33 -0400 Received: by wwg14 with SMTP id 14so3077343wwg.10 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2011 02:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4E71C6E1.9060000@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:35:29 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20110914131819.GA29426@puenktchen.ani.univie.ac.at> <4E70CC0F.3070905@codemonkey.ws> <4E71B701.3070103@scripty.at> In-Reply-To: <4E71B701.3070103@scripty.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] A small patch to introduce stop conditions to the live migration. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Treutner Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 09/15/2011 10:27 AM, Thomas Treutner wrote: > >> can always stop a guest to force convergence. > > What do you mean by stop exactly? Pausing the guest? Is it then > automatically unpaused by qemu again at the destination host? Whether the guest restarts on the destination depends on the -S command-line option given in the destination. libvirt in particular restarts the guest depending on the state *at the beginning of migration*, so yes---pausing the guest will force convergence and will get the guest running on the destination. Paolo