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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>, Xiongzi Ge <gexxx132@umn.edu>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Live Migration with different block devices
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 22:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A9E3CD.9010503@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53A9E266.8080506@redhat.com>

Il 24/06/2014 22:41, Eric Blake ha scritto:
>> >
>> > I am trying to do migration with two different block devices in the source
>> > and destination hosts.  For example, in the source the data in /dev/vda
>> > are  'aaaaa'. The guest has a cache. These data are cached.  In the other
>> > host, the data in this device are 'bbbbb'.   If we do migration, I want
>> > the  guest vm recognize this change.  How does qemu deal with the cache
>> > data?  Thanks.
> If you want the guest to see different disk contents, then hotunplug the
> original and hotplug in the new disk.  Migration is NOT supposed to
> change disk contents.  Your problem is independent of migration.

Or if you really do not want to do that, all access to the disk has to 
be done with O_DIRECT in the guest.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 20:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-24 19:18 [Qemu-devel] Live Migration with different block devices Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-24 19:37 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-24 19:55   ` Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-24 20:25     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-24 20:34       ` Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-24 20:41     ` Eric Blake
2014-06-24 20:47       ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-06-24 21:26       ` Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-24 21:39         ` Christopher Covington
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-24 19:22 Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-24 21:29 ` Brian Jackson
2014-06-24 23:16   ` Eric Blake
2014-06-25  0:08     ` Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-25  2:10       ` Eric Blake
2014-06-25  6:18       ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-25 14:14         ` Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-25 14:18           ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-06-25 14:32             ` Xiongzi Ge
2014-06-25 14:39               ` Paolo Bonzini

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