From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Avishay Traeger1 <AVISHAY@il.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hotswap boot disk
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:44:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091008144426.GI26340@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFB7826D87.6DF14594-ONC2257648.00358AC1-C2257648.0035EBB0@il.ibm.com>
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:48:52AM +0200, Avishay Traeger1 wrote:
> I'd like to know if it's possible to power down a VM, replace the boot disk
> using hotswap, and power it back up so that it boots from the new disk.
> I'd like to do this in such a way that the qemu process stays alive the
> entire time. Any suggestions?
>
> (not subscribed, please CC in all replies)
I know you can go to the qemu console and do a 'change' on ide1-cd0,
so perhaps you can do the same on ide0-hd0 (or whatever it is called).
You could try it.
Of course a cdrom is supposed to support ejecting the media. A harddisk
is not. Hotswap harddisks do exist though, so maybe it would work.
--
Len Sorensen
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2009-10-07 9:48 [Qemu-devel] Hotswap boot disk Avishay Traeger1
2009-10-08 14:44 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
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