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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:40:04 +0100 |
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On 03/12/12 19:45, Yonit Halperin wrote:
> Hi,
> On 03/12/2012 03:50 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Can you explain/exemplify, why sending data as a blob (either by (a) or
>>> (b)), that is verified only by the two ends that actually use it, is a
>>> problem?
>>
>> It tends to be not very robust. Especially when the creating/parsing is
>> done ad-hoc and the format changes now and then due to more info needing
>> to be stored later on. The qemu migration format which has almost no
>> structure breaks now and then because of that. Thus I'd prefer to not
>> go down this route when creating something new.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Gerd
>
> Exposing spice server internals to the client/qemu seems to me more
> vulnerable then sending it as a blob.
That also depends on what and how much we need to transfer.
> Nonetheless, it introduces more
> complexity to backward compatibility support and it will need to involve
> not only the capabilities/versions of the server but also those of the
> qemu/client
Backward compatibility isn't that easy both ways.
>.Which reminds me, that we also need capabilities
> negotiation for the migration protocol between the src and the destination.
If this is a hard requirement then using the vmstate channel isn't going
to work. The vmstate is a one-way channel, no way to negotiate anything
between source and target.
cheers,
Gerd
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Alon Levy, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Alon Levy, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Alon Levy, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Hans de Goede, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Yonit Halperin, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Yonit Halperin, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice,
Gerd Hoffmann <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Yonit Halperin, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, David Jaša, 2012/03/12
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] seamless migration with spice, Hans de Goede, 2012/03/12