[one-users] migrate causes VM to reboot

Shi Jin jinzishuai at gmail.com
Tue Apr 27 06:49:08 PDT 2010


Neil.
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, livemigration does not reboot.
However, it seems quite easy to do a cold migrate without the need to
reboot, why not do it?
In the current way, the VM will be shutdown improperly. For the case
of Windows, it might cause lengthy disk check upon boot.
In the worst case, it might generate disk failure (I haven't had it
yet. Maybe the checkpoint flushes the cache thus is better than a
power lose).

Just my thoughts.
Shi

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Neil Mooney <neil.mooney at sara.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi Shi
>
> For the machine to transfer without reboot, you probably need to use
> livemigrate instead.
> Do you have shared storage already ?
>
> The checkpoint file is probably redundant in a non live migration.(not
> sure).
>
> cheers
>
> Neil
>
> --
> * livemigrate (Migrates a running VM to another host without downtime)
>    onevm livemigrate <vm_id> <host_id>
>
> Shi Jin wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I am able to call "onevm migrate" to move a VM from one host to another.
>> However, it seems that after each migration, the VM was started from
>> the XML deployment file again.
>>
>> What is interesting is that a checkpoint has already been made.
>> However, it does not seem to be used?
>>
>> I think this is a bug, isn't it?
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>>
>
>



-- 
Shi Jin, Ph.D.


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