On 09/19/11 11:46, Yonit Halperin wrote:
semi-seamless migration details:

migration source side
---------------------
(1) spice_server_migrate_info (*): tell client to link
     to the target side - send SPICE_MSG_MAIN_MIGRATE_BEGIN.
     client_migrate_info cmd is asynchronous.
(2) Complete client_migrate_info only when the client has been connected
     to the target - wait for SPICE_MSGC_MAIN_MIGRATE_(CONNECTED|CONNECT_ERROR) 
or a timeout.
(3) spice_server_migrate_end: tell client migration it can switch to the target 
- send
     SPICE_MSG_MAIN_MIGRATE_END.
(4) client cleans up all data related to the connection to the source and 
switches to the target.
     It sends SPICE_MSGC_MAIN_MIGRATE_END.

So the switch-host message will not be used any more? How do you handle compatibility to spice servers which don't support this migration scheme?

This looks a bit like seamless migration half-done. What is missing to full seamless migration support? The spice channels need to transfer the state via client. Also qemu on the source needs to wait for that to complete I guess? Anything else?

  enum {
      SPICE_MIGRATE_CLIENT_NONE = 1,
      SPICE_MIGRATE_CLIENT_WAITING,
      SPICE_MIGRATE_CLIENT_READY,
  };

Is that still needed?

+/* migration interface */
+#define SPICE_INTERFACE_MIGRATION "migration"
+#define SPICE_INTERFACE_MIGRATION_MAJOR 1
+#define SPICE_INTERFACE_MIGRATION_MINOR 1
+typedef struct SpiceMigrateInterface SpiceMigrateInterface;
+typedef struct SpiceMigrateInstance SpiceMigrateInstance;
+typedef struct SpiceMigrateState SpiceMigrateState;
+
+struct SpiceMigrateInterface {
+    SpiceBaseInterface base;
+    void (*migrate_info_complete)(SpiceMigrateInstance *sin);
+};

+struct SpiceMigrateInstance {
+    SpiceBaseInstance base;
+    SpiceMigrateState *st;
+};

Why a new interface? The only purpose it seems to serve is adding a single callback. It is registered unconditionally by the spice core code in qemu. I fail to see why we can't just add the callback to the core interface. That would save a bunch of code to handle the new interface.

I think we should try to make sure the qemu <-> spice-server migration API can handle both semi-seamless and real seamless client migration. Then the two spice servers can negotiate themself which method they pick, without qemu being involved here. I think the minimum we'll need here is a second notification (when spice channel state migration via slient is finished), either using a second callback or by adding a reason argument to the one we have. But maybe just blocking in spice_server_migrate_end() works too (the guest is stopped at that point anyway, so going async doesn't buy us that much here ...).

What is the plan for the master branch? How will this work with multiclient enabled?

cheers,
  Gerd

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