[libvirt] [PATCH] Compressed save image format for Qemu.

Chris Lalancette clalance at redhat.com
Tue Aug 11 11:25:59 UTC 2009


Implement a compressed save image format for qemu.  While ideally
we would have the choice between compressed/non-compressed
available to the libvirt API, unfortunately there is no "flags"
parameter to the virDomainSave() API.  Therefore, implement this
as a qemu.conf option.  Both gzip and bzip2 are implemented, and
it should be very easy to implement additional compression
methods.

One open question is if/how we should detect the gzip and bzip2
binaries.  One way to do it is to do compile-time setting of the
paths (via configure.in), but that doesn't seem like a great thing
to do.  Another solution (my preferred solution) is not to detect
at all; when we go to run the commands that need them, if they
aren't available, or aren't available in one of the standard paths,
then we'll fail.  Maybe somebody else has another option or
opinion, though.

In the future, we'll have a more robust (managed) save/restore API,
at which time we can expose this functionality properly in the API.

V2: get rid of redundant dd command and just use >> to append data.
V3: Add back the missing pieces for the enum and bumping the save version.

Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com>
---
 src/qemu.conf     |   10 ++++++
 src/qemu_conf.c   |   11 +++++++
 src/qemu_conf.h   |    2 +
 src/qemu_driver.c |   85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 4 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu.conf b/src/qemu.conf
index 653f487..86dcc9d 100644
--- a/src/qemu.conf
+++ b/src/qemu.conf
@@ -129,3 +129,13 @@
 #    "/dev/ptmx", "/dev/kvm", "/dev/kqemu",
 #    "/dev/rtc", "/dev/hpet", "/dev/net/tun",
 #]
+
+# The default format for Qemu/KVM guest save images is raw; that is, the
+# memory from the domain is dumped out directly to a file.  If you have
+# guests with a large amount of memory, however, this can take up quite
+# a bit of space.  If you would like to compress the images while they
+# are being saved to disk, you can also set "gzip" or "bzip2" for the
+# save_image_format.  Note that this means you slow down the process
+# of saving a domain in order to save disk space.
+#
+# save_image_format = "raw"
diff --git a/src/qemu_conf.c b/src/qemu_conf.c
index 7ca5a15..ed87e13 100644
--- a/src/qemu_conf.c
+++ b/src/qemu_conf.c
@@ -280,6 +280,17 @@ int qemudLoadDriverConfig(struct qemud_driver *driver,
         driver->cgroupDeviceACL[i] = NULL;
     }
 
+    p = virConfGetValue (conf, "save_image_format");
+    CHECK_TYPE ("save_image_format", VIR_CONF_STRING);
+    if (p && p->str) {
+        VIR_FREE(driver->saveImageFormat);
+        if (!(driver->saveImageFormat = strdup(p->str))) {
+            virReportOOMError(NULL);
+            virConfFree(conf);
+            return -1;
+        }
+    }
+
     virConfFree (conf);
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/src/qemu_conf.h b/src/qemu_conf.h
index 8f4ef6a..e34baab 100644
--- a/src/qemu_conf.h
+++ b/src/qemu_conf.h
@@ -111,6 +111,8 @@ struct qemud_driver {
 
     char *securityDriverName;
     virSecurityDriverPtr securityDriver;
+
+    char *saveImageFormat;
 };
 
 
diff --git a/src/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu_driver.c
index 20906ef..8d700bf 100644
--- a/src/qemu_driver.c
+++ b/src/qemu_driver.c
@@ -3411,18 +3411,26 @@ static char *qemudEscapeShellArg(const char *in)
 }
 
 #define QEMUD_SAVE_MAGIC "LibvirtQemudSave"
-#define QEMUD_SAVE_VERSION 1
+#define QEMUD_SAVE_VERSION 2
+
+enum qemud_save_formats {
+    QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW,
+    QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_GZIP,
+    QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_BZIP2,
+};
 
 struct qemud_save_header {
     char magic[sizeof(QEMUD_SAVE_MAGIC)-1];
     int version;
     int xml_len;
     int was_running;
-    int unused[16];
+    char compressed;
+    int unused[15];
 };
 
 static int qemudDomainSave(virDomainPtr dom,
-                           const char *path) {
+                           const char *path)
+{
     struct qemud_driver *driver = dom->conn->privateData;
     virDomainObjPtr vm;
     char *command = NULL;
@@ -3433,11 +3441,26 @@ static int qemudDomainSave(virDomainPtr dom,
     struct qemud_save_header header;
     int ret = -1;
     virDomainEventPtr event = NULL;
+    int internalret;
 
     memset(&header, 0, sizeof(header));
     memcpy(header.magic, QEMUD_SAVE_MAGIC, sizeof(header.magic));
     header.version = QEMUD_SAVE_VERSION;
 
+    if (driver->saveImageFormat == NULL)
+        header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW;
+    else if (STREQ(driver->saveImageFormat, "raw"))
+        header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW;
+    else if (STREQ(driver->saveImageFormat, "gzip"))
+        header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_GZIP;
+    else if (STREQ(driver->saveImageFormat, "bzip2"))
+        header.compressed = QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_BZIP2;
+    else {
+        qemudReportError(dom->conn, dom, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED,
+                         "%s", _("Invalid save image format specified in configuration file"));
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     qemuDriverLock(driver);
     vm = virDomainFindByUUID(&driver->domains, dom->uuid);
 
@@ -3510,11 +3533,25 @@ static int qemudDomainSave(virDomainPtr dom,
         virReportOOMError(dom->conn);
         goto cleanup;
     }
-    if (virAsprintf(&command, "migrate \"exec:"
-                  "dd of='%s' oflag=append conv=notrunc 2>/dev/null"
-                  "\"", safe_path) == -1) {
+
+    if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW)
+        internalret = virAsprintf(&command, "migrate \"exec:"
+                                  "dd of='%s' oflag=append conv=notrunc 2>/dev/null"
+                                  "\"", safe_path);
+    else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_GZIP)
+        internalret = virAsprintf(&command, "migrate \"exec:"
+                                  "gzip -c >> '%s' 2>/dev/null\"", safe_path);
+    else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_BZIP2)
+        internalret = virAsprintf(&command, "migrate \"exec:"
+                                  "bzip2 -c >> '%s' 2>/dev/null\"", safe_path);
+    else {
+        qemudReportError(dom->conn, dom, NULL, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                         _("Invalid compress format %d"),
+                         header.compressed);
+        goto cleanup;
+    }
+    if (internalret < 0) {
         virReportOOMError(dom->conn);
-        command = NULL;
         goto cleanup;
     }
 
@@ -4035,6 +4072,9 @@ static int qemudDomainRestore(virConnectPtr conn,
     char *xml = NULL;
     struct qemud_save_header header;
     virDomainEventPtr event = NULL;
+    int intermediatefd = -1;
+    pid_t intermediate_pid = -1;
+    int childstat;
 
     qemuDriverLock(driver);
     /* Verify the header and read the XML */
@@ -4124,8 +4164,39 @@ static int qemudDomainRestore(virConnectPtr conn,
     }
     def = NULL;
 
+    if (header.version == 2) {
+        const char *intermediate_argv[3] = { NULL, "-dc", NULL };
+        if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_GZIP)
+            intermediate_argv[0] = "gzip";
+        else if (header.compressed == QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_BZIP2)
+            intermediate_argv[0] = "bzip2";
+        else if (header.compressed != QEMUD_SAVE_FORMAT_RAW) {
+            qemudReportError(conn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED,
+                             _("Unknown compressed save format %d"),
+                             header.compressed);
+            goto cleanup;
+        }
+        if (intermediate_argv[0] != NULL) {
+            intermediatefd = fd;
+            fd = -1;
+            if (virExec(conn, intermediate_argv, NULL, NULL,
+                        &intermediate_pid, intermediatefd, &fd, NULL, 0) < 0) {
+                qemudReportError(conn, NULL, NULL, VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
+                                 _("Failed to start decompression binary %s"),
+                                 intermediate_argv[0]);
+                goto cleanup;
+            }
+        }
+    }
     /* Set the migration source and start it up. */
     ret = qemudStartVMDaemon(conn, driver, vm, "stdio", fd);
+    if (intermediate_pid != -1) {
+        /* Wait for intermediate process to exit */
+        while (waitpid(intermediate_pid, &childstat, 0) == -1 &&
+               errno == EINTR);
+    }
+    if (intermediatefd != -1)
+        close(intermediatefd);
     close(fd);
     fd = -1;
     if (ret < 0) {
-- 
1.6.0.6




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