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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] Introduce read() to FdMigrationState.


From: Daniel P. Berrange
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] Introduce read() to FdMigrationState.
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:18:56 +0000
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:54:01AM +0100, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 02/10/2011 10:30 AM, Yoshiaki Tamura wrote:
> >Currently FdMigrationState doesn't support read(), and this patch
> >introduces it to get response from the other side.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Yoshiaki Tamura<address@hidden>
> 
> Migration is unidirectional.  Changing this is fundamental and not
> something to be done lightly.

Making it bi-directional might break libvirt's save/restore
to file support which uses migration, passing a unidirectional
FD for the file. It could also break libvirt's secure tunnelled
migration support which is currently only expecting to have
data sent in one direction on the socket.

Daniel
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