Re: [Qemu-devel] QAPI conversion status and async commands support

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:43:22 +0800
Wen Congyang <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Having said that, I wonder if postponing want-to-be-async commands to 1.2 is
> > a good thing. Two solutions other than waiting:
> > 
> >  1. Add synchronous versions of them, if possible (I think this is possible
> >     for the dump command)
> 
> I agree with this. libvirt uses migrate command to do dump now, and it cannot 
> work
> when the guest uses host's device. We need to fix this bug as quickly as 
> possible.
> So we need dump command recently. So I think we can add synchronous versions 
> of
> dump command. Is it OK? If it is OK, I will send the synchronous versions of
> dump command.

I'd be fine with this because this command is expected to be used when the guest
crashes, right? In this case, I _guess_ that holding the global mutex for a long
time is not the end of the world, as the world has ended already :) Far from 
ideal,
of course, but is the best we can do right now.

Anthony, do you have objections?