On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 08:40:34 -0400 (EDT)
Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jiri Belka" <jbe...@redhat.com>
> > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alo...@redhat.com>
> > Cc: users@ovirt.org
> > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 2:40:01 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Thinking loud about VM's serial console access
> > 
> > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:39:12 -0400 (EDT)
> > Alon Bar-Lev <alo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Please read [1].
> > > 
> > > I am unsure about concurrent access, this should be done using ssh bridge
> > > and now low level solution.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Alon
> > > 
> > > [1] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/Serial_Console
> > 
> > How will it behave when:
> > 
> > - VM is being snapshotted?
> > - VM is being migrated?
> > - VM is suspended?
> > - VM is being (cold)rebooted?
> > 
> > At least for last two I suppose the serial console session will be
> > interrupted.
> > 
> > VMWare uses extended communication to inform virtual serial port
> > concentrator about various action of a VM, thus "proxy" doesn't drop
> > serial connections.
> 
> there is no reason why the proxy cannot retry for a while and reconnect to 
> the new instance.
> however this will not be provided at first nor it is that important as client 
> can always implement reconnect at its side, and handle this just like any 
> other network failure.

OK, I'm reading this as you haven't tested it with these actions.

With real serial console one doesn't need to re-plug cable to get the
console... Thus I'm not interested anymore in the topic.

j.
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