From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] libxl: allow a generation ID to be specified at domain creation
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:35:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5396FB76.5010305@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402398065.1250.36.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com>
On 10/06/14 12:01, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 14:15 +0100, David Vrabel wrote:
>> Toolstacks may specify a VM generation ID using the
>> u.hvm.generation_id field into libxl_domain_build_info structure, when
>> creating a domain.
>>
>> The toolstack is responsible for providing the correct generation ID
>> according to the Microsoft specification (e.g., generating new random
>> ones as appropriate when restoring).
>
> Any reason not to make the libxl interface a (def)bool and have libxl
> generate a suitable ID internally? Does anything ever care about the
> specific UUID?
Other toolstacks (like xapi) have a better idea of the life-cycle of a
VM than xl does and thus need only use a new ID for snapshots -- they
can retain the same ID if the domain is just rebooted/migrated.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-10 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-03 13:15 [PATCHv3 0/6] tools: rework VM Generation ID David Vrabel
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 1/6] docs: update docs for the ~/platform/generation-id key David Vrabel
2014-06-10 10:25 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 2/6] hvm: add HVM_PARAM_VM_GENERATION_ID_ADDR David Vrabel
2014-06-03 13:19 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-10 10:27 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 10:40 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-10 10:44 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-10 10:49 ` Jan Beulich
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 3/6] hvmloader: add helper functions to get/set HVM params David Vrabel
2014-06-03 19:43 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2014-06-10 10:39 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 4/6] libxc, libxl, hvmloader: strip out outdated VM generation ID implementation David Vrabel
2014-06-10 10:42 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] libxl: allow a generation ID to be specified at domain creation David Vrabel
2014-06-03 13:28 ` Andrew Cooper
2014-06-03 14:14 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-10 11:01 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 12:35 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-06-10 13:37 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 13:41 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-10 14:18 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-10 17:59 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-11 8:22 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-11 10:53 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-11 11:01 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-11 11:47 ` David Vrabel
2014-06-11 11:53 ` Ian Campbell
2014-06-03 13:15 ` [PATCH 6/6] xl: generate a new random VM generation ID if requested David Vrabel
2014-06-10 11:02 ` Ian Campbell
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