[libvirt] [PATCH] Don't generate cookies with v2 migration protocol.

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:47:25AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/18/2011 11:08 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > The v2 migration protocol had a limit on cookie length that was
> > too small to be useful for QEMU. Avoid generating cookies with
> > v2 protocol, so that old libvirtd can still reliably migrate a
> > guest to new libvirtd uses v2 protocol.
> > 
> > * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c: Avoid migration cookies with v2
> >   migration
> > ---
> >  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |   27 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> Is it any better to try generating the cookie, and only discard it if it
> was too long, than to blindly skip the cookie?  Or are we pretty sure
> that the cookie will always be longer than the old limit (256, if I'm
> reading REMOTE_MIGRATE_COOKIE_MAX correctly in remote_protocol.x)?
> 
> If the latter, then ACK.

Yep, it is always going to be longer.

Daniel
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