Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com> wrote: > The intend of failover is to allow to migrate a VM with a VFIO > networking card without disrupting the network operation by switching > to a virtio-net device during the migration. > > This simple change allows to test failover with a simulated device > like e1000e rather than a vfio device, even if it's useless in real > life it can help to debug failover. > > This is interesting to developers that want to test failover on > a system with no vfio device. Moreover it simplifies host networking > configuration as we can use the same bridge for virtio-net and > the other failover networking device. > > Without this change the migration of a system configured with failover > fails with: > > ... > -device virtio-net-pci,id=virtionet0,failover=on,... \ > -device e1000,failover_pair_id=virtionet0,... \ > ... > > (qemu) migrate ... > > Unknown ramblock "0000:00:01.1:00.0/e1000e.rom", cannot accept migration > error while loading state for instance 0x0 of device 'ram' > load of migration failed: Invalid argument > > This happens because QEMU correctly unregisters the interface vmstate but > not the ROM one. This patch fixes that. > > Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <lviv...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <quint...@redhat.com> As this is only for testing.
