Re: Live migration of x86-64 kvm guests broken?

Jan Kiszka
2009-12-02T19:26:28Z

Ryan Harper wrote:
> * Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com> [2009-12-02 13:11]:
>> * Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> [2009-12-02 12:45]:
>>>>> So far, so consistent. Could you try kvm-kmod-2.6.32-rc7 on top of that?
>>>>>
>>>> Sure, can you remind me of the kvm-kmod build magic for building that
>>>> branch?
>>>>
>>> If you want to build from git, check Wolfgang's nice README. But it
>>> might be easier to just download the tarball from sourceforge.
>> Indeed, tarball is easiest. Still working on top of qemu.git+vmstate
>> fixes. Here's my invocation:
>>
>>
>> Source:
>> sudo ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios -m 512 -drive
>> file=/media/blackstar/images/rhel5-64.raw,if=ide -net nic,model=e1000
>> -monitor stdio -enable-kvm
>>
>> Dest:
>> sudo ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios -m 512 -drive
>> file=/media/blackstar/images/rhel5-64.raw,if=ide -net nic,model=e1000
>> -monitor stdio -enable-kvm -incoming tcp:0:4444
>>
>>
>> Lemme try qemu-kvm.git
>
> Working there as well on top of 2.6.32-rc7 kmod modules and kvm-qemu.git
> tip+vmstate fixes. Any other varient?
>

Interesting. I think I need to try with a more recent host kernel (not
sure if you want to downgrade your kernel :) ). Maybe it's a kvm-kmod
wrapping issue.

Thanks so far,
Jan

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