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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Yonit Halperin <yhalperi@redhat.com>
Cc: mprivozn@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] spice: notify spice server on vm start/stop
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 20:19:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502D39B9.7030907@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502CEEDE.8010001@redhat.com>

On 08/16/12 15:00, Yonit Halperin wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 12:42 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> On 08/16/12 10:23, Yonit Halperin wrote:
>>> Spice server needs to know about the vm state in order to prevent
>>> attempts to write to devices when they are stopped, mainly during
>>> the non-live stage of migration.
>>
>> Why this new hook?
>>
>> qemu already notifies spice-server using QXLWorker start/stop callbacks.
> It notifies the QXLWorker, and it goes to the display_channel. Spice api
> changes anyway, by adding spice_server_set_seamless_migration, and as
> other channels need this notification as well, it would be nicer to
> explicitly notify the server about the vm start/stop and not abuse the
> QXLWorker notification.

It is indeed cleaner API-wise.  Is it possible to skip QXLWorker
notification when calling the new spice_server_vm_{start,stop} functions?

cheers,
  Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-16 18:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16  8:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] add support for spice migration Yonit Halperin
2012-08-16  8:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] spice: notify spice server on vm start/stop Yonit Halperin
2012-08-16  9:42   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2012-08-16 13:00     ` Yonit Halperin
2012-08-16 18:19       ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2012-08-16  8:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] spice migration: add QEVENT_SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED Yonit Halperin
2012-08-16  8:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] spice: add 'migrated' flag to spice info Yonit Halperin
2012-08-16  8:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] spice: adding seamless-migration option to the command line Yonit Halperin

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