[libvirt] 1010824 - virsh suspend command should raise error for paused VM

[Dave Allan]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:42:47AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 04:32:54PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 10/04/2013 03:21 PM, Dave Allan wrote:
> > > As its summary says, BZ 1010824 requests that virsh suspend should
> > > raise error an error when called on a VM that's paused.  Is the
> > > current behavior correct?  
> > 
> > Or more importantly, would changing the behavior break backward
> > compatibility promises, where the best we can do is just document the
> > current behavior?
> 
> It depends what you decide the semantics of the API are. eg the
> difference beetween "Move the VM to the paused state" vs "Ensure
> the VM is in the paused state". The way we have it implemented
> is really doing the latter, hence it would not be an error if
> the VM was already in the paused state.

That's exactly what I wanted to clarify, and I think those are
reasonable semantics, so I've closed as NOTABUG.

Dave