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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
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This patch introduces a new block job, useful for live storage
migration using pre-copy streaming. Justification for including
this under virDomainBlockRebase rather than adding a new command
includes: 1) there are now two possible block jobs in qemu, with
virDomainBlockRebase starting either type of command, and
virDomainBlockJobInfo and virDomainBlockJobAbort working to end
either type; 2) reusing this command allows distros to backport
this feature to the libvirt 0.9.10 API without a .so bump.
Note that a future patch may add a more powerful interface named
virDomainBlockJobCopy, dedicated to just the block copy job, in
order to expose even more options (such as setting an arbitrary
format type for the destination without having to probe it from a
pre-existing destination file); adding a new command for targetting
just block copy would be similar to how we already have
virDomainBlockPull for targetting just the block pull job.
Using a live VM with the backing chain:
base <- snap1 <- snap2
as the starting point, we have:
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY)
creates /path/to/copy with the same format as snap2, with no backing
file, so entire chain is copied and flattened
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY_RAW)
creates /path/to/copy as a raw file, so entire chain is copied and
flattened
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_SHALLOW)
creates /path/to/copy with the same format as snap2, but with snap1 as
a backing file, so only snap2 is copied.
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_REUSE_EXT)
reuse existing /path/to/copy (must have empty contents, and format is
probed[*] from the metadata), and copy the full chain
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_REUSE_EXT|
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_SHALLOW)
reuse existing /path/to/copy (contents must be identical to snap1,
and format is probed[*] from the metadata), and copy only the contents
of snap2
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_REUSE_EXT|
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_SHALLOW|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY_RAW)
reuse existing /path/to/copy (must be raw volume with contents
identical to snap1), and copy only the contents of snap2
Less useful combinations:
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_SHALLOW|
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY_RAW)
fail if source is not raw, otherwise create /path/to/copy as raw and
the single file is copied (no chain involved)
- virDomainBlockRebase(dom, disk, "/path/to/copy", 0,
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY|VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_REUSE_EXT|
VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY_RAW)
makes little sense: the destination must be raw but have no contents,
meaning that it is an empty file, so there is nothing to reuse
The other three flags are rejected without VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_COPY.
[*] Note that probing an existing file for its format can be a security
risk _if_ there is a possibility that the existing file is 'raw', in
which case the guest can manipulate the file to appear like some other
format. But, by virtue of the VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_COPY_RAW flag,
it is possible to avoid probing of raw files, at which point, probing
of any remaining file type is no longer a security risk.
It would be nice if we could issue an event when pivoting from phase 1
to phase 2, but qemu hasn't implemented that, and we would have to poll
in order to synthesize it ourselves. Meanwhile, qemu will give us a
distinct job info and completion event when we either cancel or pivot
to end the job. Pivoting is accomplished via the new:
virDomainBlockJobAbort(dom, disk, VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_ABORT_PIVOT)
Management applications can pre-create the copy with a relative
backing file name, and use the VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_REBASE_REUSE_EXT
flag to have qemu reuse the metadata; if the management application
also copies the backing files to a new location, this can be used
to perform live storage migration of an entire backing chain.
* include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in (VIR_DOMAIN_BLOCK_JOB_TYPE_COPY):
New block job type.
(virDomainBlockJobAbortFlags, virDomainBlockRebaseFlags): New enums.
* src/libvirt.c (virDomainBlockRebase): Document the new flags,
and implement general restrictions on flag combinations.
(virDomainBlockJobAbort): Document the new flag.
(virDomainSaveFlags, virDomainSnapshotCreateXML)
(virDomainRevertToSnapshot, virDomainDetachDeviceFlags): Document
restrictions.
* include/libvirt/virterror.h (VIR_ERR_BLOCK_COPY_ACTIVE): New
error.
* src/util/virterror.c (virErrorMsg): Define it.
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>