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Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 8/9] HACK libxl_exec: Check QEMU status via QMP instead of xenstore



On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 06:32:26PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> When QEMU is restricted, the qemu on the receiving side cann't write
> anything to xenstore once the migration is started. So it cann't tell
> libxl that it is ready to continue running the guest.
> 
> In order to find out if QEMU is ready, we can issue QMP commands and
> check if it respond.
> 
> But there is no QMP socket to connect to before qemu is started. But we
> can uses different facility from qemu in order to setup some kind of
> callback before starting QEMU. For that, we open a file descriptor and
> give it to qemu.
> 
> This patch creates a pipe, give the write-end to qemu, and wait for
> something to be written to it. (We could check if it is actually the QMP
> greeting message.)
> 
> QEMU is asked to setup a QMP server on this pipe, but even if it is a
> one-way only, qemu will write the QMP greeting message to the pipe.
> This is done with:
> -add-fd, to create a fdset which is use later.
> -chardev 'file,path=/dev/fdset/1,append=true', this open a char device
> on the write-end of the pipe, tell qemu that the FD is write-only, and
> not to run truncate on it.
> -mon, just start the QMP server on this new chardev.
> 
> With that, qemu will start the QMP server on the write-only fd, which is
> enough to have the QMP greeting message. At this point, the QMP socket
> is ready, and I think qemu is in the main-loop and ready to start the
> emulation and respond to QMP commands.
> 
> This patch calls 'query-status', any response to that without error
> means that QEMU is ready. If the status is "running", QEMU would already
> have written the xenstore node if it could and is doing emulation.
> (Any subsequent QMP command 'cont', libxl__qmp_resume(),  is not
> changing anything.  If one adds '-S' to the QEMU command line, QEMU will
> have the status "prelaunch" as a response to 'query-status', then QEMU
> can be asked to start emulation with 'cont' via QMP.)
> 
> This patch copies most of "xswait" and call it "qmpwait". This is
> probably not the best way forward due to duplication.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

This email should have:

Changes in RFC v2:
- Have QEMU throw a event instead of polling on connect() to the QMP
  socket

-- 
Anthony PERARD

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