[libvirt] Modules executed during Live Migration of Virtual machines

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu May 26 11:04:48 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 03:37:27PM +0530, prakash hr wrote:
> You are right.
> My question was something like repeating the same set of questions.
> I m sorry for that.
> I just want to know how the migration is done using libvirt API, I mean the
> functions in libvirt does the job of migration.
> I know by default all the connections are done with tcp only.  So knowing
> the name and code of the modules which executes the live migration, is
> helpful in making the patch file for the other transport protocol.

libvirt doesn't do anything specific to TCP - it just creates
a URI 'tcp://somehost:port' and passes it to QEMU's monitor
command for migration. QEMU contains all the code relating
to actual migration implementation

Daniel
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