Xen devel - Sep 2010 - Checkpointing for HVM guest with PV driver

Hi, Brendan, I noticed following code in checkpoint_open() in
tools/python/xen/lowlevel/checkpoint/libcheckpoint.c:

    } else if (s->domtype == dt_pvhvm) {
       checkpoint_close(s);
       s->errstr = "PV-on-HVM is unsupported";

       return -1;
    }

This check means for HVM guest with PV driver, the checkpoint/remus will not
work. Are there any special reason for this checking?

Originally I thought PV driver on HVM guest can''t live migrate, but I
did a quick experimental to live migration a HVM guest with PV driver installed,
(I only tried to migrate to localhost since I have only one system on hand) and
seems it works well, so what''s the reason for this restriction?

Thanks
--jyh 


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On Wednesday, 08 September 2010 at 22:36, Jiang, Yunhong
wrote:
> Hi, Brendan, I noticed following code in checkpoint_open() in
tools/python/xen/lowlevel/checkpoint/libcheckpoint.c:
> 
>     } else if (s->domtype == dt_pvhvm) {
>        checkpoint_close(s);
>        s->errstr = "PV-on-HVM is unsupported";
> 
>        return -1;
>     }
> 
> This check means for HVM guest with PV driver, the checkpoint/remus will
not work. Are there any special reason for this checking?
> 
> Originally I thought PV driver on HVM guest can''t live migrate,
but I did a quick experimental to live migration a HVM guest with PV driver
installed, (I only tried to migrate to localhost since I have only one system on
hand) and seems it works well, so what''s the reason for this
restriction?
It simply hasn''t been tested. I haven''t looked at how suspend
notification/cancellation works in the PVHVM drivers, or whether it
affects ioemu at all. If live migration works already, then there
probably isn''t much to it. Have you tried removing that check and
making checkpoint treat PVHVM the same as HVM, then running remus?

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