[et-mgmt-tools] [RFC]Re: [libvirt] [RFC][PATCH] virt-managercalls migration API

[S.Sakamoto]

Hi, Daniel

Sorry for delaying response.

Thank you for your suggestions. I understand. 
I will make the prototype patch!

Thanks
Shigeki Sakamoto.

> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:43:37PM +0900, S.Sakamoto wrote:
> > > 
> > > > You probably want to send this to et-mgmt-list, which is where virt-manager
> > > > development happens,
> > > 
> > > OK. For this, I tried to hear in et-mgmt-list.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'm sorry to be pressing, but would you give me a comment on this patch for
> > going on the next step to migrate from virt-manager ? 
> > I attached screenshots this patch shows.
> 
> I think rather than having it popup a new window with a list of hosts to
> migrate to, you could just have a sub-menu where you choose the destination
> host directly.
> 
> eg,
> 
>     right-click
>       |
>       +-  Run
>           Pause
>           Shutdown
>           --------
>           Migrate ----> host1.example.com
>                         host2.example.com
>                         host3.example.com
>                         ...etc...
> 
> When the user selects one of these hosts, it'd popup a confirmation
> window, and do the neccessary migration checks, and then allow the
> admin to confirm to start the migration.
> 
> > > > I sent an e-mail last month with proposals for doing this within libvirt.  I put
> > > > up all of the information I have in the libvirt wiki here:
> > > > 
> > > > http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/TodoPreMigrationChecks
> > > 
> > > Thank you for your information. I see above libvirt wiki and I have a few 
> > > idea adding checks within libvirt. These point of view are Guest and Host sanity
> > > in BASIC CHECKS. How about this points ?
> > > 
> > >  1)Guest sanity is checking whether already existing or not on the destination.
> > >    Otherwise the uniqueness of the domain(UUID, name) are lost.
> > >    * I think that it is right to check this in libvirt. How do you think this ?
> 
> Yes, checking for name/uuid uniqueness has to be done inside libvirt by
> each hypervisor driver according to their own rules.
> 
> > >  2)Host sanity is checking whether a migration flag is ON at each virtualization.
> 
> virt-manager will need to check the kind of things on the TodoPreMigrationChecks
> wiki page.
> 
> 
> Daniel
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