Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Add --downtime option to virsh migrate command

2010/3/17 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt;: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:05:35AM +0100, Matthias Bolte wrote: > > Conceptually this doesn't make sense. The max downtime parameter is a > live tunable that a management app will set based on the conditions at > the time of migration. Suitable value is dependant on the workload of > the guest (how quickly it is dirtying RAM) and network bandwidth between > hosts (how quickly RAM is transferred). You would only increase the > max downtime if the VM was not able to complete migration promptly > enough. So it shouldn't be persistent, and I don't think there's any > compelling need for a getter either. > > Regards, > Daniel > True. I just had the API POV in mind and forgot about the rest. So we add a new function to configure a per-migration option because we cannot change the existing migrate functions to add a new parameter.