[Libvir] Re: Next features and target for development
Anthony Liguori
anthony at codemonkey.ws
Wed Jul 11 16:57:28 UTC 2007
Dan Smith wrote:
> DV> you really want a pointer to an existing connection, not an URI
> DV> and hostname. Sure you could get the virConnectPtr based on the
> DV> URI, but it's better to rely on the user to do that step
> DV> independantly.
>
> So that implies that in order to perform a migration with libvirt, the
> user will need the libvirt daemon running and accessible on the remote
> machine, is that right? If so, why should this be necessary?
>
1) It's required for tcp:// migration in QEMU/KVM
2) Xen is insane for allowing arbitrary incoming migrations from
anywhere. When the Xen migration model is made more sane, you'll
probably be forced to tell a destination node that it should accept an
incoming migration for a particular domain.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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