On 04/14/2011 03:29 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 14.04.2011 11:10, schrieb Philipp Hahn:
Reviving an old thread...
> Hello,
>
> Am Dienstag 03 August 2010 06:44:26 schrieb Kevin Wolf:
>> From: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho<miguel.filho(a)gmail.com>
>>
>> This patch improves the resilience of the load_vmstate() function, doing
>> further and better ordered tests.
>
> This patch broke restoring not-running VMs using libvirt-0.8.7 with qemu-0.14:
> When the domain is not running while taking a snpshot, the sn.vm_state_size
> == 0:
>
> [...]
>
> Previously the qcow2 image was still reverted to the old state, so on the next
> start of the domain the qcow2 image would be in the state of the snapshot
>
> [...]
>
> Now the qcow2 image is not reverted and when the domain is started, it is NOT
> in the state of the snapshot.
>
> I can't decide if this regression is an Qemu bug or libvirt should be adapted
> to this new behavior.
Ouch. I wouldn't have expected that libvirt relies on this qemu bug.
When libvirt doesn't use the VM state but boots a fresh VM, it should
call qemu-img snapshot -a for the disks rather than using the loadvm
monitor command.
Libvirt should be using 'qemu-img snapshot -a' before reverting to a
snapshot made via 'qemu-img snapshot -c'; I'm writing the patch now.
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