-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel P. Berrangé [mailto:berrange@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 9:48 PM
To: Wangxin (Alexander, Cloud Infrastructure Service Product Dept.)
<wangxinxin.wang(a)huawei.com>
Cc: libvir-list(a)redhat.com; mkletzan(a)redhat.com; Huangweidong (C)
<weidong.huang(a)huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [question]qemu: any plan to support ivshmem-plain migration?
On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 01:14:04PM +0000, Wangxin (Alexander, Cloud
Infrastructure Service Product Dept.) wrote:
> Hi, Martin
>
> Ivshmem-plain device support property role with 'master'(master=on) or
> 'peer'(master=off, default mode), which controls to copy the shared memory
on migration to the destination host or not.
>
https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=docs/system/ivshmem.rst;h=b0
> 3a48afa3ae7258bbe43490180fc5732b1f6c8c;hb=HEAD
>
> And libvirt does not support to configure 'role' yet, see msg
>
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-August/msg00591.html
>
> Qemu use 'master=off' as ivshmem-plain default property, the guest create
by libvirt api can't be migrated now.
>
> Do you have an plan to support the property 'role' and ivshmem-palin
migration?
I would assume no one is actively working on it since it is 4 years since that
quoted message. If you wish to try to implement it, we'll review any patches.