mirror of
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt.git
synced 2025-03-02 20:58:33 +03:00
eaba79d22e
This is the bare minimum to end a copy job (of course, until a later patch adds the ability to start a copy job, this patch doesn't do much in isolation; I've just split the patches to ease the review). This patch intentionally avoids SELinux, lock manager, and audit actions. Also, if libvirtd restarts at the exact moment that a 'block-job-complete' is in flight, the proposed proper way to detect the outcome of that would be with a persistent bitmap and some additional query commands when libvirtd restarts. This patch is enough to test the common case of success when used correctly, while saving the subtleties of proper cleanup for worst-case errors for later. When a mirror job is started, cancelling the job safely reverts back to the source disk, regardless of whether the destination is in phase 1 (streaming, in which case the destination is worthless) or phase 2 (mirroring, in which case the destination is synced up to the source at the time of the cancel). Our existing code does just fine in either phase, other than some bookkeeping cleanup; this implements live block copy. Ideas for future enhancements via new flags: Depending on when persistent bitmap support is added, it may be worth adding a VIR_DOMAIN_REBASE_COPY_ATOMIC flag that fails up front if we detect an older qemu with risky pivot operation. Interesting side note: while snapshot-create --disk-only creates a copy of the disk at a point in time by moving the domain on to a new file (the copy is the file now in the just-extended backing chain), blockjob --abort of a copy job creates a copy of the disk while keeping the domain on the original file. There may be potential improvements to the snapshot code to exploit block copy over multiple disks all at one point in time. And, if 'block-job-cancel' were made part of 'transaction', you could copy multiple disks at the same point in time without pausing the domain. This also implies we may want to add a --quiesce flag to virDomainBlockJobAbort, so that when breaking a mirror (whether by cancel or pivot), the side of the mirror that we are abandoning is at least in a stable state with regards to guest I/O. * src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockJobAbort): Accept new flag. (qemuDomainBlockPivot): New helper function. (qemuDomainBlockJobImpl): Implement it.
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>