Re: [BUG] Re: [2/6] loadvm: improve tests before bdrv_snapshot_goto()

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On 04/14/2011 03:29 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
Am 14.04.2011 11:10, schrieb Philipp Hahn:

Reviving an old thread...

Hello,

Am Dienstag 03 August 2010 06:44:26 schrieb Kevin Wolf:
From: Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho<miguel.filho@xxxxxxxxx>

This patch improves the resilience of the load_vmstate() function, doing
further and better ordered tests.

This patch broke restoring not-running VMs using libvirt-0.8.7 with qemu-0.14:
When the domain is not running while taking a snpshot, the sn.vm_state_size
== 0:

[...]

Previously the qcow2 image was still reverted to the old state, so on the next
start of the domain the qcow2 image would be in the state of the snapshot

[...]

Now the qcow2 image is not reverted and when the domain is started, it is NOT
in the state of the snapshot.

I can't decide if this regression is an Qemu bug or libvirt should be adapted
to this new behavior.

Ouch. I wouldn't have expected that libvirt relies on this qemu bug.
When libvirt doesn't use the VM state but boots a fresh VM, it should
call qemu-img snapshot -a for the disks rather than using the loadvm
monitor command.

Libvirt should be using 'qemu-img snapshot -a' before reverting to a snapshot made via 'qemu-img snapshot -c'; I'm writing the patch now.

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