[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 5/6] libxl: allow a generation ID to be specified at domain creation
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 13:35 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > On 10/06/14 12:01, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-06-03 at 14:15 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > >> Toolstacks may specify a VM generation ID using the > >> u.hvm.generation_id field into libxl_domain_build_info structure, when > >> creating a domain. > >> > >> The toolstack is responsible for providing the correct generation ID > >> according to the Microsoft specification (e.g., generating new random > >> ones as appropriate when restoring). > > > > Any reason not to make the libxl interface a (def)bool and have libxl > > generate a suitable ID internally? Does anything ever care about the > > specific UUID? > > Other toolstacks (like xapi) have a better idea of the life-cycle of a > VM than xl does and thus need only use a new ID for snapshots -- they > can retain the same ID if the domain is just rebooted/migrated. They should set the field to false then and libxl won't regenerate it. Ian. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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