Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote on 28/06/2010 10:26:47:
> From: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
> Cc: Liran Schour/Haifa/i...@ibmil
> Date: 28/06/2010 10:26
> Subject: Block live migration's use of type hint
>
> Block live migration appears to migrate only block devices with type
> hint BDRV_TYPE_HD. Others are silently skipped:
>
> static void init_blk_migration_it(void *opaque, BlockDriverState *bs)
> {
> Monitor *mon = opaque;
> BlkMigDevState *bmds;
> int64_t sectors;
>
> if (bs->type == BDRV_TYPE_HD) {
> [...]
> }
> }
>
> The logic comes from commit c163b5ca, but its commit message doesn't
> mention it. Liran, please advise. What are we trying to accomplish
> here?
>
> Whatever it is, I suspect checking the type hint isn't the appropriate
> way to get it.
my intention was to migrate only writeable devices. Maybe there are more
accurate ways to do that.
- Liran
