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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, lirans@il.ibm.com
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/3 v4] Live migration without shared storage
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:51:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD35E94.2040108@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AD354A1.20401@msgid.tls.msk.ru>

On 10/12/2009 06:09 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> lirans@il.ibm.com wrote:
>> This series adds support for live migration without shared storage,
>> means copy the storage while migrating. It was tested with KVM.
>> Supports 2 ways to replicate the storage during migration:
>> 1. Complete copy of storage to destination 2. Assuming the storage is
>> cow based, copy only the allocated data, time of the migration will be
>> linear with the amount of allocated data (user responsibility to
>> verify that the same backend file reside on src and destination).
>
> Hmm. How about something like:
>
> migrate exec:"rsync file1 file2 ... remote: && nc remote port"

That can surely work to copy the base files, but it is a task for an 
upper level like libvirt.  For qemu, copying the copy-on-write data is 
enough.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-12 16:24 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3 v4] Live migration without shared storage lirans
2009-10-12 16:09 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-10-12 16:51   ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2009-10-13  8:14     ` [Qemu-devel] " Liran Schour
2009-10-13  8:18       ` Paolo Bonzini

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