Re: Live migration without SDL

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Ty! Boyack wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm afraid I'm missing something very basic here.  I'm looking to try 
> out the live migration facility, and all the documentation I'm seeing 
> shows to initiate the migration by going to the qemu monitor from the 
> SDL windows (alt-ctrl-2).  However, I'd like to run my VMs with a VNC 
> "head," so I'm not sure where the interface is to initiate the 
> migration without the SDL layer in place.
> Is the qemu monitor available through some other mechanism?

It's available through VNC fwiw, but you can also redirect it to 
somethign else with the -monitor option.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> This would be most helpful if the mechanism was reachable (and 
> scriptable) from the HOST os, so that the HOST (in cooperation with 
> another HOST) could initiate a migration of one or more GUEST VMs.
>
> If anyone could point me in the right direction, I would sure 
> appreciate it.
>
> I have not subscribed to the list, so e-mail replies would be 
> appreciated.
>
> -Ty!
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