[libvirt] migration flags

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Apr 12 15:18:23 UTC 2010


On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 02:01:51PM +0300, Kenneth Nagin wrote:
> 
> Could someone explain the usage of the following migration flags:

Normally migration is co-ordinated by the libvirt client  in a 3 step
process

  Client ------> Dest host (prepare)
  Client ------> Source host (perform)
  Client ------> Dest host (finish)

> --p2p

THis changes it so that libvirtd on the source talks directly to libvirtd
on the dest

  Client ------> Source host (perform + p2p)
  Source host ------> Dest host (prepare)
  Source host ------> Dest host (finish)

This means the client does not need to authenticate with the dest host
libvirtd.

> --direct

This is for cases where the underlying virt can do migration without any
support from libvirtd at all. The hypervisors talk directly to each other

> --tunneled

Builds on top of p2p, but instead of having QEMU connect to QEMU, the
migration data is tunnelled over the existing libvirtd -> libvirtd
data coonnection which is more secure.

> --persistent

The config file for the guest is written out to disk on the destination
host making the guest persistent.


Daniel
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