[libvirt] [PATCH] migrate VMs between different-endian hosts

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 16:53:37 UTC 2011


On 04/09/2011 09:48 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> This patch enables the migration of Qemu VMs between hosts of different
> endianess. I tested this by migrating a i686 VM between a x86 and ppc64
> host.
> 
> I am converting the 'int's in the VM's state header to uint32_t assuming
> this doesn't break compatibility with existing deployments other than
> Linux.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> Index: libvirt-acl/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> ===================================================================
> --- libvirt-acl.orig/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> +++ libvirt-acl/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
>  #include <sys/wait.h>
>  #include <sys/ioctl.h>
>  #include <sys/un.h>
> +#include <byteswap.h>

This won't work unless you also modify bootstrap.conf to include the
gnulib byteswap module.

ACK with that nit fixed.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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