Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] Make xendomains ignore lost+found

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 04:58:18PM +0100, Mark Williamson wrote:
> > As requested by Mark Williamson in BZ #681
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Gawain Lynch <gawain.lynch@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Gawain, thanks for identifying this and patching it.
> 
> This fixes a breakage on resume when the XENDOMAINS_SAVE directory is a 
> separate partition.
> 
> At some point it /might/ be nice to have more sophisticated checking of what 
> is an suspend image, and what's not.  But this patch shouldn't break 
> anything, and should fix a user-visible bug for some people.

You can read the first 16 bytes of the file & check they are 'LinuxGuestRecord'.
This is the sanity check we do in virt-manager when user asks us to restore
a VM from saved image.

Regards,
Dan.
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