Re: [PATCH 1/2] qemu: Fix checking of ABI stability when restoring external checkpoints

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On 09/16/2013 06:36 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> External checkpoints have a bug in the implementation where they use the
> normal definition instead of the "migratable" one. This causes errors
> when the snapshot is being reverted using the workaround method via
> qemuDomainRestoreFlags() with a custom XML. This issue was introduced
> when commit 07966f6a8b5ccb5bb4c716b25deb8ba2e572cc67 changed the code to
> compare "migratable" XMLs from the user as we should have used
> migratable in the image too.
> 
> This patch adds a compatibility layer, so that fixing the snapshot code
> won't make existing snapshots fail to load.
> 
> Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1008340
> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Uggh, but makes sense.

> 
>          if (!virDomainDefCheckABIStability(def, newdef)) {
>              virDomainDefFree(newdef);
> -            goto error;
> +            virResetLastError();
> +
> +            /* Due to a bug in external snapshot creation code, the XML saved

a bug in older versions of external snapshot creation code,

ACK with that comment tweak (and maybe even call out that external
snapshots created prior to 1.1.3 have the bug).

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