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  • The current savevm/loadvm protocol has some draw backs.  It does not support
    the ability to do progressive saving which means it cannot be used for live
    checkpointing or migration.  The sections sizes are 32-bit integers which
    means that it will not function when using more than 4GB of memory for a guest.
    It attempts to seek within the output file which means it cannot be streamed.
    The current protocol also is pretty lax about how it supports forward
    compatibility.  If a saved section version is greater than what the restore
    code support, the restore code generally treats the saved data as being in
    whatever version it supports.  This means that restoring a saved VM on an older
    version of QEMU will likely result in silent guest failure.
    
    This patch introduces a new version of the savevm protocol.  It has the
    following features:
    
     * Support for progressive save of sections (for live checkpoint/migration)
     * An asynchronous API for doing save
     * Support for interleaving multiple progressive save sections
       (for future support of memory hot-add/storage migration)
     * Fully streaming format
     * Strong section version checking
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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    aliguori authored
     
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  • This patch adds a dirty tracking bit for live migration.  We use 0x08 because
    kqemu uses 0x04.
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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    aliguori authored
     
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  • This patch adds a bdrv_flush_all() function.  It's necessary to ensure that all
    IO operations have been flushed to disk before completely a live migration.
    
    N.B. we don't actually use this now.  We really should flush the block drivers
    using an live savevm callback to avoid unnecessary guest down time.
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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    aliguori authored
     
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  • Live migration happens in the background, but it is useful to make the monitor
    command appear as if it's blocking.  This allows a management tool to
    immediately know when the live migration has completed without having to poll
    the migration status.
    
    This patch allows the monitor to be suspended from a monitor callback which
    will prevent new monitor commands from being executed.
    
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
    
    
    
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    aliguori authored
     
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