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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 4/8] ACPI: Add Virtual Machine Generation ID


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 4/8] ACPI: Add Virtual Machine Generation ID support
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 14:45:29 -0600
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On 02/20/2017 02:19 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Eric Blake (address@hidden) wrote:
>> On 02/20/2017 04:23 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>>> * Laszlo Ersek (address@hidden) wrote:
>>>> CC Dave
>>>
>>> This isn't an area I really understand; but if I'm
>>> reading this right then 
>>>    vmgenid is stored in fw_cfg?
>>>    fw_cfg isn't migrated
>>>
>>> So why should any changes to it get migrated, except if it's already
>>> been read by the guest (and if the guest reads it again aftwards what's
>>> it expected to read?)
>>
>> Why are we expecting it to change on migration?  You want a new value
> 
> I'm not; I was asking why a change made prior to migration would be
> preserved across migration.

Okay, so you're asking what happens if the source requests the vmgenid
device, and sets an id, but the destination of the migration does not
request anything - how does the guest on the destination see the same id
as was in place on the source at the time migration started.

> 
> 
>> when you load state from disk (you don't know how many times the same
>> state has been loaded previously, so each load is effectively forking
>> the VM and you want a different value), but for a single live migration,
>> you aren't forking the VM and don't need a new generation ID.
>>
>> I guess it all boils down to what command line you're using: if libvirt
>> is driving a live migration, it will request the same UUID in the
>> command line of the destination as what is on the source; while if
>> libvirt is loading from a [managed]save to restore state from a file, it
>> will either request a new UUID directly or request auto to let qemu
>> generate the new id.
> 
> Hmm now I've lost it a bit; I thought we would preserve the value
> transmitted from the source, not the value on the command line of the 
> destination.

I guess I'm trying to figure out whether libvirt MUST read the current
id and explicitly tell the destination of migration to reuse that id, or
if libvirt can omit the id on migration and everything just works
because the id was migrated from the source.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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