On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 02:11:25PM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Dear list,
there is the following bug [1] which I'm not quite sure how to grasp. So there is this application/infrastructure called Kove [2] that allows you to have memory for your application stored on a distant host in network and basically fetch needed region on pagefault. Now imagine that somebody wants to use it for backing up domain memory. However, the way that the tool works is it has some kernel module and then some userland binary that is fed with the path of the mmaped file. I don't know all the details, but the point is, in order to let users use this we need to expose the paths for mem-path for the guest memory. I know we did not want to do this in the past, but now it looks like we don't have a way around it, do we?
We don't want to expose the concept of paths in the XML because this is a linux specific way to configure hugepages / shared memory. So we hide the particular path used in the internal impl of the QEMU driver, and or via the qemu.conf global config file. I don't really want to change that approach, particularly if the only reason is to integrate with a closed source binary like Kove. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|