Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] vm live storage migration with snapshots

2015-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
[dropping multiple lists; let's just use libvirt-users] On 02/11/2015 02:45 PM, Edward Young wrote: > I perform a simple test, but failed. > > In the source, I create: base <- mid <- active (2 snapshots, the active > one is the current one) > In order to migrate this vm to the destination, I m

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] vm live storage migration with snapshots

2015-02-11 Thread Edward Young
Hi Eric, Please see the blew: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/11/2015 02:07 PM, Edward Young wrote: > >>> What if this vm has a number of disk-only external snapshots? In the > >>> current version, how can live migrate this vm? > >> > >> Are the snapshots based on sha

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] vm live storage migration with snapshots

2015-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/11/2015 02:07 PM, Edward Young wrote: >>> What if this vm has a number of disk-only external snapshots? In the >>> current version, how can live migrate this vm? >> >> Are the snapshots based on shared storage, or local-only storage? >> > > Yes, I'm talking about the local-only storage. Oka

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] vm live storage migration with snapshots

2015-02-11 Thread Edward Young
Hi Eric, Thanks for your reply! I have the follow up questions blew. On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 02/11/2015 10:08 AM, Edward Young wrote: > > Hi all, > > [probably didn't need to cross-post to quite that wide of an audience, > oh well] > > > > > I'm investigating th

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt/virsh change boot order

2015-02-11 Thread Robb Walker
Thank you sir! and apologies for the legalese attachment! You mentioned before when I sought answers, and I was literally just telling a colleague I missed your statement about it. I'm so used to it, i forget about it. This will be the last response with that additional payload. I will find ano

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt/virsh change boot order

2015-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/11/2015 01:34 PM, Robb Walker wrote: > Hello, hope all are well. > > > Am I missing something? > > If I add a cdrom and change boot order in a running vm with virsh edit, I > have to shutdown the vm and restart to see the change in boot order. I can > not just restart the vm via reboot i

[libvirt-users] libvirt/virsh change boot order

2015-02-11 Thread Robb Walker
Hello, hope all are well. Am I missing something? If I add a cdrom and change boot order in a running vm with virsh edit, I have to shutdown the vm and restart to see the change in boot order. I can not just restart the vm via reboot inside the vm or virsh reboot vm. I don't see anything unde

Re: [libvirt-users] [libvirt] vm live storage migration with snapshots

2015-02-11 Thread Eric Blake
On 02/11/2015 10:08 AM, Edward Young wrote: > Hi all, [probably didn't need to cross-post to quite that wide of an audience, oh well] > > I'm investigating the ways to improve the live migration performance in > libvirt. I have a question about the vm live storage migration. the > platform is li

[libvirt-users] vm live storage migration with snapshots

2015-02-11 Thread Edward Young
Hi all, I'm investigating the ways to improve the live migration performance in libvirt. I have a question about the vm live storage migration. the platform is libvirt + qemu + kvm If we want to migrate a running vm with its virtual disk images to another node. we can use 'virsh migrate ' com

Re: [libvirt-users] libvirt 1.2.10 and latest EL6 qemu-kvm

2015-02-11 Thread Franky Van Liedekerke
(I'm sorry, I didn't find my original message but I provide the archive link: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvirt-users/2015-January/msg00069.html ) I just tried the latest libvirt release (1.2.12), combined with the following qemu EL6 package from centos: qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.448.el6_6.x86_64

[libvirt-users] Hyper-V 2008 R2 support ?

2015-02-11 Thread Jean-François FILIPPI
Hi, I'm trying libvirt to connect to Hyper-V servers. It works fine for Hyper-V 2012 servers, however it doesn't work for Hyper-V 2008 R2 (the exact error is | Call to virConnectOpenAuth failed: internal error: Transport error during enumeration: Could not connect (7) (Libvirt::ConnectionError)|.)