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[Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?
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Juan Quintela |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken? |
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Sun, 16 May 2010 22:04:08 +0200 |
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Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 05/16/2010 05:42 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>>
>>> Any idea why it fails? And how to fix it?
>>>
>> Lack of "proper" subsections. IDE is something like:
>>
>> const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive = {
>> .version_id = 4,
>> ....
>> }
>>
>> static const VMStateDescription vmstate_bmdma = {
>> .name = "ide bmdma",
>> .version_id = 4,
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_pci = {
>> .name = "ide",
>> .version_id = 4,
>> ....
>> VMSTATE_STRUCT_ARRAY(bmdma, PCIIDEState, 2, 0,
>> vmstate_bmdma, BMDMAState),
>> VMSTATE_IDE_DRIVES(bus[0].ifs, PCIIDEState),
>> VMSTATE_IDE_DRIVES(bus[1].ifs, PCIIDEState),
>> ....
>> }
>>
>>
>> Notice that everything is at version 4. It used to be everything at
>> version 3. Now the problem is that when migrating from v3 -> v4. We
>> put in one place v3, But we only have a version number at the toplevel,
>> rest of "subsections" don't sent a version number. There is no way to
>> fix it in the general case. We can hack something around for ide, but
>> that will just be a hack, or we can backport marcelo change and port it
>> as a proper subsection (that is my plan). I expect to have time at the
>> end of next time to work on this.
>>
>
> end of next week?
Humm, for Spaniards weeks start on Monday :) (Monday is holiday here).
I mean here Friday 21.
>> So, to make the story short: I know what is happening, and I know how to
>> fix it, just that fix is not trivial. I just need time.
>>
>
> Meanwhile, we have a broken 0.12.4. Is there a quick'n'dirty
> workaround that will be forward compatible with the real fix that we
> can push out?
revert the patch. It almost never happen (being in the middle of one
IO) while migrating.
> We've regressed from failing some migrations to failing all migrations.
Humm, 0.12.4 -> 0.12.4 should work. My advise is just revert the patch
and live with it for another week, what do you think?
Later, Juan.
- [Qemu-devel] Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Peter Lieven, 2010/05/11
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Juan Quintela, 2010/05/11
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Peter Lieven, 2010/05/12
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Juan Quintela, 2010/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?,
Juan Quintela <=
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Avi Kivity, 2010/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Michael Tokarev, 2010/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Juan Quintela, 2010/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Michael Tokarev, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Alexander Graf, 2010/05/17
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Juan Quintela, 2010/05/16
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Qemu-KVM Livate Migration 0.12.2 -> 0.12.3/4 broken?, Jan Kiszka, 2010/05/17