From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Live migration without SDL Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:37:25 -0500 Message-ID: <48768115.4050302@codemonkey.ws> References: <48767660.2070908@nrel.colostate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: "Ty! Boyack" Return-path: Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.46.30]:55458 "EHLO yw-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752966AbYGJVi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:38:28 -0400 Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so1732129ywe.1 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:38:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <48767660.2070908@nrel.colostate.edu> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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! > > >