On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 03:52:57PM GMT, Peter Krempa wrote: > The s390(x) machines never supported ACPI. That didn't stop users > enabling ACPI in their config. As of libvirt-9.2 (98c4e3d073) with new > enough qemu we reject configs which require ACPI, but qemu can't satisfy > it. > > This breaks migration of existing VMs with the old wrong configs to new > libvirt installations. > > To address this introduce a post-parse fixup removing the ACPI flag > specifically for s390 machines which do enable it in the definition. > > The advantage of doing it in post-parse, rather than simply relaxing the > ABI stability check to allow users providing an fixed XML when migrating > (allowing change of the ACPI flag for s390 in ABI stability check, as it > doesn't impact ABI), is that only the destination installation needs to > be patched in order to preserve migration. > > To mitigate the disadvantage of simply stripping it from all s390(x) > configs the hack is not applied when defining or starting a new domain > from the XML, to preserve the error about unsupported configuration. > > Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-49516 > Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <[email protected]> > --- > src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]> -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
