On 02/10/2015 06:25 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> If an internal snapshot can't be saved because migration is blocked
> (most commonly probably because of AHCI), we had a really bad error
> message:
> 
> $ echo -e "savevm foo\nquit" | qemu -M q35 /tmp/test.qcow2 -monitor stdio

You know, 'echo -e' is non-portable (even in bash; you can change shopt
so that it outputs a literal "-e" instead of turning on \
interpretation); it's worth getting used to using 'printf' for
portability.  But that doesn't affect your commit.

> QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) savevm foo
> Error -22 while writing VM
> (qemu) quit
> 
> This patch converts qemu_savevm_state() to the Error infrastructure so
> that a useful error pointing to the problematic device is produced now:
> 
> $ echo -e "savevm foo\nquit" | qemu -M q35 /tmp/test.qcow2 -monitor stdio
> QEMU 2.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) savevm foo
> State blocked by non-migratable device '0000:00:1f.2/ich9_ahci'
> (qemu) quit
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <[email protected]>
> ---
>  savevm.c | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <[email protected]>

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Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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