Re: [Libvir] VIR_DOMAIN_NOSTATE

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > Can you edit the src/xen_internal.c file and in the > xenHypervisorGetDomInfo() > method, add a printf() for the 'domain_flags' flags variable. IMHO the > way we deal with this isn't quite correct. We merely mask out the high > bits and then switch on the resulting value. This isn't the way the Xen > hypervisor uses this field though. Xen more or less uses the whole thing > as as bitmask, allowing near arbitrary combinations of bits to be set. > So I think what is happening is there's a combo of bits set which cause > the switch() statement to fail all cases, resulting in NOSTATE. > > We'll probably need to replace the switch(domain_flags) with something > which explicitly tests for the bits we're interested in, rather than > looking at the value as a whole. when xenHypervisorGetDomInfo() returns VIR_DOMAIN_NONE, domain_flags is 0 (sampled after the HVM bit has been masked out). So is there some other state implied by domain_flags being 0? In all cases I have seen, the domain is actually running -- accumulating CPU time, etc. ----------------------------------------------------- Russ Blaine | Solaris Kernel | russell.blaine(a)sun.com