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Re: [Qemu-devel] QAPI conversion status and async commands support
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Luiz Capitulino |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] QAPI conversion status and async commands support |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:50:04 -0300 |
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:43:22 +0800
Wen Congyang <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Having said that, I wonder if postponing want-to-be-async commands to 1.2 is
> > a good thing. Two solutions other than waiting:
> >
> > 1. Add synchronous versions of them, if possible (I think this is possible
> > for the dump command)
>
> I agree with this. libvirt uses migrate command to do dump now, and it cannot
> work
> when the guest uses host's device. We need to fix this bug as quickly as
> possible.
> So we need dump command recently. So I think we can add synchronous versions
> of
> dump command. Is it OK? If it is OK, I will send the synchronous versions of
> dump command.
I'd be fine with this because this command is expected to be used when the guest
crashes, right? In this case, I _guess_ that holding the global mutex for a long
time is not the end of the world, as the world has ended already :) Far from
ideal,
of course, but is the best we can do right now.
Anthony, do you have objections?