On (Wed) 14 Oct 2015 [17:12:44], Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 03:21:15PM +0200, Juan Quintela wrote: > > Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > We were announcing the dest host's IP as our new IP a bit too soon -- if > > > there were errors detected after this announcement was done, the > > > migration is failed and the VM could continue running on the src host -- > > > causing problems later. > > > > > > Move around the qemu_announce_self() call so it's done just before the > > > VM is runnable. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com> > > > > Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> > > > > applied. > > > > I have the same question than Dave, but also agree that this is a > > movement in the right direction. > > > > Why it is not only needed when we do a vm_start()? > > It's a complex question. We don't want to do this on each > vmstop/vmcont. But maybe we want to, on the 1st vmstart after > qemu is started.
Why? When a guest starts, it will issue ARP requests and everything will just work. We need this announce_self only to tell the switches that the MAC belonging to the guest's IP has changed.. Amit