Re: Secure migration of LVM based guests over WAN

Lukas Laukamp
2012-10-16T09:48:55Z

Am 16.10.2012 11:40, schrieb Avi Kivity:
> On 10/16/2012 11:12 AM, Lukas Laukamp wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I have a question about a solution for migrate LVM based guests directly
>> over the network.
>>
>> So the situation: Two KVM hosts with libvirt, multiple LVM based guests
>> Want to do: Migrate a LVM based guest directly to the other host over an
>> secure connection
>>
>> I know that migration is possible when the VM disks are stored on an
>> NFS, GFS2 filer/cluster etc.
>>
>> So would it be possible to do an offline migration directly with netcat
>> or something like that?
>>
> If all you need is offline, you can use scp to copy each volume to the
> destination volume. Make sure the guests are shut down when you do that.
>
> It is also possible to do a live migration, but unless the destination
> and source are in the same IP subnet, the guests are going to lose
> connectivity.
>
>

Hello Avi,

so can I simply copy an logical volume to the path of the volume group
with scp?

For the live migration theme, it would be no problem when the guests
looses connectivity, how could be done a live migration?

Best Regards