On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 07:54:57AM -0400, John Ferlan wrote: > > > On 04/12/2018 07:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 04:10:03PM -0400, John Ferlan wrote: > >> Before we generate the command line for qemu, if the domain about to > >> be launched desires to utilize the VM Generation ID functionality, then > >> handle both the regenerating the GUID value for backup recovery (restore > >> operation) and the startup after snapshot as well as checking that the > >> genid value that's about to be placed on the command line doesn't > >> duplicate some other already running domain. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 22 +++++++--- > >> src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > >> src/qemu/qemu_process.h | 1 + > >> 3 files changed, 126 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) > > > > > >> + /* Now let's make sure the genid this domain has is not duplicitous > >> + * with something else running. */ > >> + if (virDomainObjListForEach(driver->domains, qemuProcessCheckGenID, vm) < 0) > >> + return -1; > > > > Is this really required ? AFAIK, the gen ID merely has to be unique within > > the scope of the installed guest disk image, not amongst all VMs that exist. > > If it was the latter, the check we're doing is pretty weak because it only > > considers one host, not VMs on every other host. IMHO this check is not > > desirable because it adds mutex contention against every guest, into the > > start up path and other code paths too. > > > > Well it wasn't 100% clear from what I read whether it would be required. > I may have misread something along the way too with how/why the value > was being used with Active Directory and perhaps a cloned domain using > (or needing) some mechanism to distinguish between the two. > > Still, in rereading the MS GenID paper again uniqueness between two > domains doesn't seem to be required (which is fine by me - I didn't like > the code either) since the AD issues seem to be time based to rolling > back using a snapshot. In practice, unless someone uses tragically bad UUID generator that produces clashing strings, they're all going to be unique anyway. So I think we're safe to drop the check and blame any mistakes on the mgmt app using libvirt, if they occurr. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
