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
>
>
>
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