Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix migration of old pseries

[Laurent Vivier]

On 18/02/2016 12:32, Greg Kurz wrote:
> QEMU 2.4 broke the migration of old pseries machine with the addition
> of configuration sections, which are sent unconditionally.
> 
> We assume that QEMU 2.3 is more deployed than any newer release (based on
> the versions currently shipped by most distros). This v3 series hence
> reverses the logic from v2: it now fully fixes migration of old pseries
> from/to QEMU 2.3 and provides a manual workaround for the QEMU 2.4/2.4.1/2.5
> case.
> 
> With this series, I could migrate the same pseries-2.3 instance in a full
> 2.3->2.6->2.5->2.6->2.4->2.6->2.3 cycle.
> 
> ---
> 
> Greg Kurz (2):
>       spapr: skip configuration section during migration of older machines
>       migration: allow machine to enforce configuration section migration
> 
> 
>  hw/core/machine.c   |   21 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  hw/ppc/spapr.c      |    1 +
>  include/hw/boards.h |    1 +
>  migration/savevm.c  |   10 ++++++++--
>  qemu-options.hx     |    3 ++-
>  5 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

For the series
Tested-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>

Results of tests:

pseries-2.3

    qemu-2.3.0 -> qemu-master: OK
    qemu-2.3.1 -> qemu-master: OK
    qemu-2.4.0 -> qemu-master: OK with qom-set
    qemu-2.4.1 -> qemu-master: OK with qom-set
    qemu-2.5.0 -> qemu-master: OK with qom-set
    qemu-master -> qemu-2.3.0: OK
    qemu-master -> qemu-2.3.1: OK
    qemu-master -> qemu-2.4.0: OK with qom-set
    qemu-master -> qemu-2.4.1: OK with qom-set
    qemu-master -> qemu-2.5.0: OK with qom-set
    qemu-master -> qemu-master: OK

pseries-2.4, pseries-2.5 and pseries-2.6 works well with the patch
applied too.

master is "b527c9b qcow2: Write full header on image creation" + this series

Laurent