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From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: ehabkost@redhat.com, groug@kaod.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com, clg@kaod.org, crosa@redhat.com,
	qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] tests/acceptance/migration: test to migrate will all machine types
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 10:46:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190918004642.GC2440@umbus.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190917094425.GD3370@work-vm>

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On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:44:25AM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Balamuruhan S (bala24@linux.ibm.com) wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 03:50:06PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > > * Balamuruhan S (bala24@linux.ibm.com) wrote:
> > > > add migration test to query machine types supported by qemu binary
> > > > and migrate vm will all supported type.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Balamuruhan S <bala24@linux.ibm.com>
> > > 
> > > Depending on the architecture you might find that some machine types
> > > aren't migratable while some are.
> > 
> > Thanks Dave, is there a way to query/check whether a machine type on the
> > architecture is migratable or should we try migrating and handle exception
> > on failure ?
> 
> I don't know a way to detect it; you can add -only-migratable to get
> qemu to fai early if a device is declared as being non-migratable; but
> that still doesn't say that all the devices have actually been tested
> migrating.

At present we kind of have an informal distinction between those
machine types that are mature and maintained enough to support
migration (which I think is just pc, q35, pseries and arm virt) and
those which aren't.

There isn't, as far as I know, a way to detect this.

I know we've mentioned at least briefly the idea of formalizing this
distinction at qemu summit, but I don't think the discussion went
anywhere.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-18  3:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-16  9:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add acceptance test for migration Balamuruhan S
2019-09-16  9:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] tests/acceptance/migration: fix post migration check Balamuruhan S
2019-09-16 18:50   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-17  8:51     ` Balamuruhan S
2019-09-17  9:40       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-16  9:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] tests/acceptance/avocado_qemu: add method to get supported machine types Balamuruhan S
2019-09-16  9:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] tests/acceptance/migration: test to migrate will all " Balamuruhan S
2019-09-16 14:50   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-17  8:45     ` Balamuruhan S
2019-09-17  9:44       ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2019-09-18  0:46         ` David Gibson [this message]
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2019-08-05 18:20 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Add acceptance test for migration Balamuruhan S
2019-08-05 18:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] tests/acceptance/migration: test to migrate will all machine types Balamuruhan S

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