The legacy "toolstack" record as implemented in libxl turns out not to
be 32/64bit safe. As migration v2 has not shipped yet, take this
opportunity to adjust the specification and fix the incompatibility.
Libxl shall loose all knowledge of the old "toolstack" blob and use this
EMULATOR_XENSTORE_DATA record instead. Compatibility shall be handled
by the legacy conversion script.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Add further instructions to the libxc "Future Extensions" section, and
provide such a section for libxl.
In addition, drop the "In experimental __func__" IPRINTF()s from the
libxc implementations.
Finally, a correction to libxl's "Not Yet Included" section which
should have been amended in c/s 7eaec00 when libxl Remus support was
introduced into the protocol.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Update the libxc spec to indicate more sternly that TOOLSTACK records
should no longer be used.
Also, trim further toolstack infrastructure which should have gone in
c/s 39bf4e9 "tools/libxl: Drop all knowledge of toolstack callbacks"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
In a remus scenario, libxc will write a CHECKPOINT record, then hand
ownership of the fd to libxl. Libxl then writes any records required
and finishes with a CHECKPOINT_END record, then hands ownership of the
fd back to libxc.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Add the specification for a new migration stream format. The document
includes all the details but to summarize:
The existing (legacy) format is dependant on the word size of the
toolstack. This prevents domains from migrating from hosts running
32-bit toolstacks to hosts running 64-bit toolstacks (and vice-versa).
The legacy format lacks any version information making it difficult to
extend in compatible way.
The new format has a header (the image header) with version information,
a domain header with basic information of the domain and a stream of
records for the image data.
The format will be used for future domain types (such as on ARM).
The specification is pandoc format (an extended markdown format) and the
documentation build system is extended to support pandoc format documents.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Wen Congyang