Bug #10214

Get 9p live migration support into QEMU

Added by anonym 2015-09-17 07:10:58 . Updated 2016-11-29 19:52:28 .

Status:
Rejected
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Test suite
Target version:
Tails_2.9.1
Start date:
2015-09-17
Due date:
% Done:

0%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Wait
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Deliverable for:

Description

It’s been on the QEMU development mailing list: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg05438.html

We need that for making 9p filesystem shares compatible with snapshots (and it’s been verified that the above patches work when applied to Debian’s qemu 2.1+dfsg-12+deb8u2 packages.

Subtasks

History

#1 Updated by anonym 2015-09-17 07:12:29

Some more info about this can be found in comments Bug #5571#note-15 and Bug #5571#note-19.

Also, note that I’ve emailed both the original and second submitter to ask if any of them are interested in pushing for this qemu feature again.

#2 Updated by anonym 2015-09-17 07:12:45

#3 Updated by anonym 2015-09-17 07:13:03

  • blocks #8668 added

#4 Updated by anonym 2015-09-26 08:05:42

  • Deliverable for set to 266

#5 Updated by sajolida 2015-10-01 07:21:29

  • Priority changed from Normal to High

This was due on July 15, so raising priority.

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-01 09:01:01

  • Priority changed from High to Normal
  • Deliverable for deleted (266)

#8 Updated by anonym 2015-10-17 06:30:17

  • Target version changed from Tails_1.7 to Tails_1.8

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-20 03:25:19

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-20 03:25:35

#11 Updated by intrigeri 2015-10-20 03:26:58

  • blocked by deleted (#8668)

#13 Updated by intrigeri 2015-12-05 14:00:59

  • Target version changed from Tails_1.8 to Tails_2.2

Postponing to after January, since times will be crazy until then.

#14 Updated by anonym 2016-02-24 18:49:45

  • Target version changed from Tails_2.2 to Tails_2.3

I’ll give this one some more attention in March.

#15 Updated by anonym 2016-04-20 11:32:54

  • Target version changed from Tails_2.3 to Tails_2.4

#16 Updated by anonym 2016-06-08 01:34:51

  • Target version changed from Tails_2.4 to Tails_2.5

#17 Updated by intrigeri 2016-07-13 12:24:45

  • Target version changed from Tails_2.5 to Tails_2.7

#18 Updated by bertagaz 2016-11-17 17:38:33

  • Target version changed from Tails_2.7 to Tails_2.9.1

#19 Updated by anonym 2016-11-29 19:52:28

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected
  • Assignee deleted (anonym)

See Bug #5571#note-39 and the rest of that ticket.

tl;dr: we will stop using filesystem shares, so we don’t need this any more.