[adding libvir-list for some interesting discussions on potential
libvirt design issues]
On 04/17/2012 12:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 16/04/2012 23:55, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>>> Do transient guests have persistent storage for them in /var while they
>>> are running?
>>
>> Yes - that's how li
Il 16/04/2012 23:55, Eric Blake ha scritto:
> > Do transient guests have persistent storage for them in /var while they
> > are running?
>
> Yes - that's how libvirt tracks the pid of the qemu process that it
> should be re-attaching to on a libvirtd restart, as well as several
> other aspects (fo
On 04/16/2012 03:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 14/04/2012 00:32, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>> But if the world conspires against me, such as libvirt going down, then
>> qemu completing the reopen, then the guest VM halting itself so that the
>> qemu process goes away, all before libvirt restarts, t
Il 14/04/2012 00:32, Eric Blake ha scritto:
> But if the world conspires against me, such as libvirt going down, then
> qemu completing the reopen, then the guest VM halting itself so that the
> qemu process goes away, all before libvirt restarts, then I'm stuck
> figuring out whether qemu finished
On 04/13/2012 10:23 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Management needs a way for QEMU to confirm that no I/O has been sent to the
> target and not to the source. To provide this guarantee we rely on a file
> in local persistent storage. QEMU receives a file descriptor via SCM_RIGHTS
> and writes a singl
