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authorGreg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>2018-02-07 16:41:43 +0100
committerDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2018-02-14 10:23:15 +0000
commitc2eb7f213a15b870f7a35ec961e4f1e0f7e2df91 (patch)
treed97ed8ee249531ba79ef5ad9d3939a8340e6562b /qapi
parent96994fd1e4e0da2a3b5d585a58621722199c67c9 (diff)
downloadqemu-c2eb7f213a15b870f7a35ec961e4f1e0f7e2df91.tar.gz
migration: improve documentation of postcopy-ram
This capability must have the same value on both source and destination, otherwise migration fails (commit 875fcd013ab6 "migration: incoming postcopy advise sanity checks"). Let's write it down in various places where postcopy-ram is documented. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> Message-Id: <151801810352.29167.4832480228518630626.stgit@bahia.lan> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qapi')
-rw-r--r--qapi/migration.json10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/qapi/migration.json b/qapi/migration.json
index 4cd3d13158..7f465a1902 100644
--- a/qapi/migration.json
+++ b/qapi/migration.json
@@ -327,8 +327,10 @@
# to speed up convergence of RAM migration. (since 1.6)
#
# @postcopy-ram: Start executing on the migration target before all of RAM has
-# been migrated, pulling the remaining pages along as needed. NOTE: If
-# the migration fails during postcopy the VM will fail. (since 2.6)
+# been migrated, pulling the remaining pages along as needed. The
+# capacity must have the same setting on both source and target
+# or migration will not even start. NOTE: If the migration fails during
+# postcopy the VM will fail. (since 2.6)
#
# @x-colo: If enabled, migration will never end, and the state of the VM on the
# primary side will be migrated continuously to the VM on secondary
@@ -742,8 +744,8 @@
# @migrate-start-postcopy:
#
# Followup to a migration command to switch the migration to postcopy mode.
-# The postcopy-ram capability must be set before the original migration
-# command.
+# The postcopy-ram capability must be set on both source and destination
+# before the original migration command.
#
# Since: 2.5
#