[libvirt] [PATCH 0/3 v2] More graceful handling of QEMU monitor failures

[Daniel Veillard]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 06:06:40PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> An update of
> 
>   https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-May/msg00657.html
> 
> Currently when libvirt has a serious error doing I/O and/or parsing
> of the QEMU monitor, it will kill off the guest. Application developers
> have expressed a desire for more graceful handling of this scenario.
> In particular to allow the guest OS to continue to run, without any
> further monitor interactons, and then kill/restart it at a time which
> is convenient to the guest admin/apps.
> 
> New in this posting:
> 
>   - Change the name of the event to 'CONTROL_ERROR' and use the
>     generic callback, instead of passing a type field
>   - Add python dispatch code
>   - Add 3rd patch to improve qemu monitor error reporting

  Okay reviewed, principle sounds good we can probably use the event
for other hypervisors.
  I just had to modify 1/3 to add a description of the event message
in the protocol ABI check file src/remote_protocol-structs

  ACK, and pushed,

Daniel

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