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From: | Avi Kivity |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 3/3] disk: don't read from disk until the guest starts |
Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:47:49 +0200 |
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On 09/13/2010 04:34 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 09/13/2010 09:13 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:I think the only real advantage is that we fix NFS migration, right?That's the one that we know about, yes. The rest is not a specific scenario, but a strong feeling that having an image opened twice at the same time feels dangerous.We've never really had clear semantics about live migration and block driver's life cycles. At a high level, for live migration to work, we need the following sequence:1) src> flush all pending writes to disk 2) <barrier> 3) dst> invalidate any cached data 4) dst> start guest
That's pretty complicated, compared to 1) src> close 2) dst> open 3) dst> start guest There are two failure scenarios with this model: 1. dst cannot open the imageWe fix that by killing dst and continuing src (which has to re-open its images).
2. dst cannot open the image, and src cannot as wellIn this case, what would be gained by having an image handle open in one of the hosts, but no way to open it again? As soon as the surviving qemu exited (or crashed), the image would be lost for ever.
To get (1) working correctly we need an event that tells management that all initialization has completed and the guest is ready to run (so management can terminate the source).
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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