Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] vl: fix migration when watchdog expires

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Paolo Bonzini (address@hidden) wrote:
> On 16/08/2018 09:22, Zhoujian (jay) wrote:
> > Could we add the check !runstate_check(RUN_STATE_FINISH_MIGRATE) before 
> > setting
> > to RUN_STATE_PRELAUNCH, just like !runstate_check(RUN_STATE_RUNNING) and
> > !runstate_check(RUN_STATE_INMIGRATE) did? But I'm not sure whether this will
> > cause any side effect.
> 
> I think there is a bigger problem to fix before.  global_state_store
> sees RUNNING, not PRELAUNCH; the VM is migrated with state that is
> already reset, but the state on the destination is RUNNING and the VM
> restarts running on the destination.  Likewise, if migration fails the
> VM is resumed on the source because s->vm_was_running is true.
> 
> David, Juan, do you have any ideas here?

Would it help if we didn't process the reset-request at all while the
guest was paused; so the guest state didn't get reset?
I think you'd have to then migrate the 'reset-requested' flag to cause
it to happen on the destination.

Dave

> Paolo
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