From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
To: Alireza Vaezi <s.alireza.v@gmail.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: Is data transfer encrypted in live migration?
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 10:33:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1430818431.2660.14.camel@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEZiW-rTaYwJZK6s5Nf3OyfFp8v_XZg-YrkpkTfrtMU3CYDi-A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2015-05-03 at 14:00 +0430, Alireza Vaezi wrote:
> Hi
>
> does xen establish a secure (encrypted) channel via ssh to transfer
> data in live migration?
This is a function of the toolstack in use. For the xl toolstack the
answer is yes, everything (including the guest memory contents) is
transmitted over the encrypted ssh tunnel.
I don't know what libvirt does (might be optional depending on the URL
used?).
Ian.
>
>
> I'm using xen 4.4 hypervisor and when trying to live migrate a domU
> guest to another physical machine, it establishes ssh connection to
> the destination. does it mean that the memory content of the VM
> transfered to the destination in live migration is encrypted?
>
>
>
> S.Alireza.V
>
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2015-05-03 9:30 Is data transfer encrypted in live migration? Alireza Vaezi
2015-05-05 9:33 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2015-05-05 9:49 ` Ian Campbell
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