Re: [Libvir] VIR_DOMAIN_NOSTATE

Russ Blaine wrote: > 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 This begs a question actually ... Is the host (or guest) Solaris? Rich.