Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] conf: ABI: Memballoon setting is not guest ABI

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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 19:54:23 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 08:50:43PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > The current balloon setting does not influence the ABI of the guest and
> > the driver should take the change just fine.
> > ---
> > I personally don't think that this check is useful, but I'll happily drop the
> > patch if anybody thinks otherwise.
> > 
> >  src/conf/domain_conf.c | 6 ------
> >  1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
> 
> Yes, you can change the balloon target on the fly, so this isn't something
> we need to keep as stable across migration. The question though is whether
> libvirt/QEMU will correctly handle the changed balloon setting during
> migration. ie does libvirt correctly issue a 'balloon' monitor command on
> the target host if it has changed in the target XML ?  If it does, then I
> agree this check can go..

I think qemu should handle this just right as we pass it via the
monitor, but I didn't actually try it. I'll hold off this one until I
make sure that it actually is okay.

Peter

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