From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Mueller Subject: Re: Live migration without SDL Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:49:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <48767660.2070908@nrel.colostate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47547 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952AbYGKFzI (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:55:08 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KHBaw-0002dK-Vw for kvm@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:55:03 +0000 Received: from 217-162-206-199.dclient.hispeed.ch ([217.162.206.199]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:55:02 +0000 Received: from thomas by 217-162-206-199.dclient.hispeed.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:55:02 +0000 Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:51:44 -0600, 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? > as others also stated, qemu monitor is also available through vnc. maybe your vnc client blocks ALT. i have to click on the titlebar and choose "Alt" (realvnc). but mostly i do redirect montior to a socket. with this command line switches: -monitor unix:/var/run/kvm-,server,nowait i then connect with a tool called socat (socat stdio /var/run/kvm-). don't try to exit the console with "quit". :) - Thomas