On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 16:58 +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The legacy save/restore infrastructure requires several function pointers from
> the toolstack (libxl or Xend in the past) in order to work, and for HVM guests
> also need to be able to play around in dom0's filesystem to move the device
> model save record.
> 
> Migration v2 changes some of this, but is similarly dependent on
> toolstack-provided function pointers.
> 
> Someone who wishes to re-architect the interaction of moving parts for running
> a domain might be in a position to re-enabled this, but for now, explicitly
> fail with ENOSYS (from xc_nomigrate.c) rather than failing with an error about
> a missing function pointer (or indeed falling over a NULL pointer on certain
> paths).

You are talking about a toolstack which is itself running in a stubdom
here, right?

As opposed to e.g. an HVM domain using a qemu-stubdom, but being
migrated by a normal toolstack in domain 0 (or at least, not in a
mini-os based stubdom).

Ian.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com>
> CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com>
> CC: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
> ---
>  tools/libxc/Makefile |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/libxc/Makefile b/tools/libxc/Makefile
> index bd2ca6c..735afdb 100644
> --- a/tools/libxc/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/libxc/Makefile
> @@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ include $(XEN_ROOT)/tools/Rules.mk
>  MAJOR    = 4.5
>  MINOR    = 0
>  
> +ifeq ($(CONFIG_LIBXC_MINIOS),y)
> +# Save/restore of a domain is currently incompatible with a stubdom 
> environment
> +override CONFIG_MIGRATE := n
> +endif
> +
>  CTRL_SRCS-y       :=
>  CTRL_SRCS-y       += xc_core.c
>  CTRL_SRCS-$(CONFIG_X86) += xc_core_x86.c



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