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[v4,01/34] docs/devel/migration.rst: Document the file transport

Message ID 20240220224138.24759-2-farosas@suse.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series migration: File based migration with multifd and fixed-ram | expand

Commit Message

Fabiano Rosas Feb. 20, 2024, 10:41 p.m. UTC 
When adding the support for file migration with the file: transport,
we missed adding documentation for it.

Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
---
 docs/devel/migration/main.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Peter Xu Feb. 23, 2024, 3:01 a.m. UTC | #1 
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 07:41:05PM -0300, Fabiano Rosas wrote:
> When adding the support for file migration with the file: transport,
> we missed adding documentation for it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
index 331252a92c..8024275d6d 100644
--- a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@  over any transport.
 - exec migration: do the migration using the stdin/stdout through a process.
 - fd migration: do the migration using a file descriptor that is
   passed to QEMU.  QEMU doesn't care how this file descriptor is opened.
+- file migration: do the migration using a file that is passed to QEMU
+  by path. A file offset option is supported to allow a management
+  application to add its own metadata to the start of the file without
+  QEMU interference.
 
 In addition, support is included for migration using RDMA, which
 transports the page data using ``RDMA``, where the hardware takes care of