Re: [PATCH V6 06/14] migration: preserve suspended runstate

[Peter Xu]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 01:37:19PM -0800, Steve Sistare wrote:
> A guest that is migrated in the suspended state automaticaly wakes and
> continues execution.  This is wrong; the guest should end migration in
> the same state it started.  The root cause is that the outgoing migration
> code automatically wakes the guest, then saves the RUNNING runstate in
> global_state_store(), hence the incoming migration code thinks the guest is
> running and continues the guest if autostart is true.
> 
> On the outgoing side, delete the call to qemu_system_wakeup_request().
> Now that vm_stop completely stops a vm in the suspended state (from the
> preceding patches), the existing call to vm_stop_force_state is sufficient
> to correctly migrate all vmstate.
> 
> On the incoming side, call vm_start if the pre-migration state was running
> or suspended.  For the latter, vm_start correctly restores the suspended
> state, and a future system_wakeup monitor request will cause the vm to
> resume running.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>

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Peter Xu