On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Nick Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Mueller wrote: > > > i'm also thinking about using kvm and heartbeat togheter on a 2node > cluster. > > > > Stack would be: > > > > - drbd > > - ocfs2 > > - libvirt (virsh) > > - kvm with file backed storage > > > > so far i experimented with an virsh ocf resouce agent. but only to start > and stop. no migration. > > > > OK. One of the downsides of Xen HVM is that you can't do live migration > with the DRBD backend at present. That's the kind of thing that would entice > us to switch.
How about: http://blogs.linbit.com/florian/2007/09/03/drbd-806-brings-full-live-migration-for-xen-on-drbd/ ?? Regards, Andreas > > > > > gotchas so far: > > - ocfs2: fencing itself (two-node cluster problem... or my configuration > error) > > - ocfs2: not integrated with heartbeat (i'm using debian, read about > rewrite of ocfs2 on ml to allow userspace clustering - april 2008) > > - kvm: virtio devices (aka disk/network performance) are new (kernel >= > 2.6.25) > > - kvm: migration with virtio devices doesn't work yet > > - debian: etch's libvirt/kvm somewhat too old (needs backporting) > > > > i would say: not an out-of-the box solution. > > > > Sounds quite painful. I think I will stick to trying to solve our Xen > problems for the moment! > > cheers > > Nick > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems > _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
