From c35462f19b70afd27420f260aaa62adb30eafe91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabiano Rosas Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:41:05 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs/devel/migration.rst: Document the file transport When adding the support for file migration with the file: transport, we missed adding documentation for it. Signed-off-by: Fabiano Rosas Reviewed-by: Peter Xu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240220224138.24759-2-farosas@suse.de Signed-off-by: Peter Xu --- docs/devel/migration/main.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) 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