On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 12:40:54 +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 10:55:47 +0200, Jiri Denemark wrote: > > Every running QEMU process we are willing to reconnect (i.e., at least > > 3.1.0) supports migration events and we can assume the capability is > > already enabled since last time libvirt daemon connected to its monitor. > > > > Well, it's not guaranteed though. If libvirt 1.2.17 or older was used to > > start QEMU 3.1.0 or newer, migration events would not be enabled. And if > > the user decides to upgrade libvirt from 1.2.17 to 8.4.0 while the QEMU > > process is still running, they would not be able to migrate the domain > > But doesn't the function below actually enable the events? Or is there > something else that needs to be done? > > Such that we simply could enable the events and be done with it? > > > because of disabled migration events. I think we do not really need to > > worry about this scenario as libvirt 1.2.17 is 7 years old while QEMU > > 3.1.0 was released only 3.5 years ago. Thus a chance someone would be > > running such configuration should be fairly small and a combination with > > upgrading 1.2.17 to 8.4.0 (or newer) with running domains should get it > > pretty much to zero. The issue would disappear ff the ancient libvirt is > > first upgraded to something older than 8.4.0 and then to the current > > libvirt. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > Notes: > > I was hoping we could do this without any downside, but it appeared this > > was not possible. In case someone still thinks this would be an issue, I > > can take an alternative solution and check whether migration events are > > enabled when reconnecting to QEMU monitor. Aaah, never mind. You want to avoid setting it all the time. Well I think I would be okay with that, does our code handle the absence of events properly?
