Re: [PATCH v5] docs/designs: re-work the xenstore migration document...

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 05.05.20 15:01, Julien Grall wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 28/04/2020 16:06, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > From: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ... to specify a separate migration stream that will also be suitable for
> > live update.
> >
> > The original scope of the document was to support non-cooperative 
> > migration
> > of guests [1] but, since then, live update of xenstored has been 
> > brought into
> > scope. Thus it makes more sense to define a separate image format for
> > serializing xenstore state that is suitable for both purposes.
> >
> > The document has been limited to specifying a new image format. The 
> > mechanism
> > for acquiring the image for live update or migration is not covered as 
> > that
> > is more appropriately dealt with by a patch to docs/misc/xenstore.txt. 
> > It is
> > also expected that, when the first implementation of live update or 
> > migration
> > making use of this specification is committed, that the document is 
> > moved from
> > docs/designs into docs/specs.
> >
> > NOTE: It will only be necessary to save and restore state for active 
> > xenstore
> >        connections, but the documentation for 'RESUME' in xenstore.txt 
> > implies
> >        otherwise. That command is unused so this patch deletes it from 
> > the
> >        specification.
Could someone from Citrix please verify that XAPI isn't using XS_RESUME?


Juergen