[libvirt] PATCH: Enable migration with QEMU >= 0.10.0

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:26:57AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:40:55AM +0200, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 09:28:04PM +0200, Gerrit Slomma wrote:
> > >
> > > So could this patch for the now be applied?
> > >
> > > --- a/src/qemu_conf.c 2009-04-20 11:08:15.000000000 +0200
> > > +++ b/src/qemu_conf.c 2009-05-13 22:28:31.000000000 +0200
> > > @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
> > > uname (&utsname);
> > >
> > > if ((caps = virCapabilitiesNew(utsname.machine,
> > > - 0, 0)) == NULL)
> > > + 1, 1)) == NULL)
> > > goto no_memory;

  haha, now I remember where I had seen it :-)

> > > /* Using KVM's mac prefix for QEMU too */
> > >
> > > would look up for the URI formats too if i have some time to spare.
> > 
> >   Hum, shouldn't we check for the version of QEmu being used first ?
> > If you sit on #virt it's very frequent to see people with code base
> > more than one year old, and we can't really expect everybody to upgrade
> > every 6 months. Or did I miss something ?
> 
> This is really reflecting the host driver capabilities as a whole, rather
> than whether it will succeed for a particular VM. The libvirt driver
> supports migrate, but certain QEMU binaries may not, in which case the
> app would get an appropriate error message later when invoking the API.
> You can have multiple QEMU binaries with different capabilies on the
> same host, so we can't accurately represent that here.

  Hum, okay, makes sense.

Daniel

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