Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Make guest OS bootable when hardware failure happens in log disk

2013-04-05 Thread Seiji Aguchi
> NACK this is putting inappropriate policy decisions into libvirt. > This may be how you want this scenario to work, but it is certainly not what > every user of libvirt will want. How about adding some option to libvirt so that the users can choose policies? > If the storage is fubar & the ma

Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Make guest OS bootable when hardware failure happens in log disk

2013-04-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:36:45PM +, Seiji Aguchi wrote: > [Problem] > Currently, guest OS's messages can be logged to a local disk of host OS > by creating chadevs with options below. > -chardev file,id=charserial0,path= -device > isa-serial,chardev=chardevserial0,id=serial0 > > When a h

[libvirt] [PATCH] Make guest OS bootable when hardware failure happens in log disk

2013-04-05 Thread Seiji Aguchi
[Problem] Currently, guest OS's messages can be logged to a local disk of host OS by creating chadevs with options below. -chardev file,id=charserial0,path= -device isa-serial,chardev=chardevserial0,id=serial0 When a hardware failure happens in the disk, qemu-kvm can't create the chardevs. In