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authorTomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com>2012-12-12 12:55:55 +0900
committerMichael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-01-08 16:38:12 -0600
commitec0f694c11e8e0958d727e40e0759ab99e5908d6 (patch)
tree6167bf79990fcde0edf3c0fe862fd7c62619b764 /qga/guest-agent-core.h
parent7b3760879bf323a0d9654a5158d5b3ed51882505 (diff)
downloadqemu-ec0f694c11e8e0958d727e40e0759ab99e5908d6.tar.gz
qemu-ga: execute hook to quiesce the guest on fsfreeze-freeze/thaw
To use the online disk snapshot for online-backup, application-level consistency of the snapshot image is required. However, currently the guest agent can provide only filesystem-level consistency, and the snapshot may contain dirty data, for example, incomplete transactions. This patch provides the opportunity to quiesce applications before snapshot is taken. If --fsfreeze-hook option is specified, the hook is executed with "freeze" argument before the filesystem is frozen by fsfreeze-freeze command. As for fsfreeze-thaw command, the hook is executed with "thaw" argument after the filesystem is thawed. This patch depends on patchset to improve error reporting by Luiz Capitulino: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-11/msg03016.html Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama.qu@hitachi.com> Reviewed-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> *clarified usage in help output Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/qga/guest-agent-core.h b/qga/guest-agent-core.h
index 8934163375..3354598362 100644
--- a/qga/guest-agent-core.h
+++ b/qga/guest-agent-core.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ void ga_set_response_delimited(GAState *s);
bool ga_is_frozen(GAState *s);
void ga_set_frozen(GAState *s);
void ga_unset_frozen(GAState *s);
+const char *ga_fsfreeze_hook(GAState *s);
#ifndef _WIN32
void reopen_fd_to_null(int fd);