Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [CFR 6/10] cont command

[Jamie Lokier]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 06/16/2010 11:17 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >Consider the example that I showed you:
> >
> >(host A)             (host B)
> >launch qemu             launch qemu -incoming
> >migrate host B
> >                         .....
> >                         do your things
> >                         exit/poweroff/...
> >
> >At this point you have a qemu launched on machine A, with nothing on
> >machine B.  running "cont" on machine A, have disastreus consecuences,
> >and there is no way to prevent it :(
> >   
> 
> If there was a reasonable belief that it wouldn't result in disaster, I 
> would fully support you.  However, I can't think of any rational reason 
> why someone would do this.  I can't think of a better analogy to 
> shooting yourself in the foot.

That looks like a useful way to fork a guest for testing, if host B is
launched with -snapshot, or a copy of the disk image, or a qcow2 child of it.

Does it work? :-)

-- Jamie