From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvuEK-0006Jg-SB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:44:32 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MvuEG-0006Hk-9A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:44:32 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48556 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MvuEG-0006Hh-2Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:44:28 -0400 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:39348) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MvuEF-00030z-Nx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:44:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:44:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Hotswap boot disk Message-ID: <20091008144426.GI26340@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avishay Traeger1 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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