On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 12:15:19PM +0100, Peter Krempa via Devel wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 17:36:27 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On a Thursday in 2025, Peter Krempa via Devel wrote:
> > From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
> > ---
> > NEWS.rst | 10 ++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> > index 98ca838642..b2f3415001 100644
> > --- a/NEWS.rst
> > +++ b/NEWS.rst
> > @@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ v11.2.0 (unreleased)
> >
> > * **Improvements**
> >
> > + * qemu: Improved guest agent corner case error reporting
> > +
> > + The APIs using the guest agent now report two specific error codes aimed
at
> > + helping management applications and also users to differentiate between
> > + the guest agent timing out while libvirt is attempting synchronisation,
thus
> > + no harm would be done and while being issued a command.
> > +
>
> guest-agent considered harmful? :)
Well, it can be sub-optimal to the VM if the filesystems are frozen
while the management layer thinks they are not.
In that scenario, the guest agent will unconditionally fail all commands
that are not safe for use while frozen.
With regards,
Daniel
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