[libvirt] Problems live migrating a Windows VM - Inconsistent?

[Eric Blake]

On 09/30/2012 12:20 PM, Shawn Starr wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I noticed some issues migrating a VM
> 
> 1) I had to have ssh key authentication exchanged or it would refuse to 
> connect tunneled to the remote libvirtd server

Correct - per http://libvirt.org/migration.html, under tunnelled
migration, there is this warning:

The destination URI must be reachable using the source libvirtd
credentials (which are not necessarily the same as the credentials of
the client in connecting to the source).

There has also been a recent addition of a new
qemu+libssh2://host/system URI, with better credential handling through
libvirt APIs, although I'm not sure if the new URI is capable of
handling the authentication exchange as part of the libvirt migrate command.

> 
> 2) When it attempts to finish live migrating the VM it fails saying it can't 
> find the domain on the remote libvirtd server host

Can you print the exact error message it gave?  [Oh, I see you did that
below]

> 
> However, if I run the command again to migrate, it DOES migrate the VM over, however the Windows guest is not usable, cant type/use mouse, but i can see the VM display fine. I can gracefully shut the VM down from virt-manager and 
> I see the VM shut down gracefully from display attached via spice.

As for the mouse not being usable after migration, that sounds more like
an issue in qemu; you might get better results asking on a qemu list,
and/or upgrading to newer qemu on both source and destination machines
before attempting another migration.


> LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1 virsh --debug=4 migrate --verbose --live --tunnelled --p2p Windows_7 qemu+ssh://root@172.18.2.3/system
> 
> Output:
> 

> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.751+0000: 24710: debug : virObjectUnref:135 : OBJECT_UNREF: obj=0x26693b0
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.751+0000: 24708: debug : virDomainFree:2281 : dom=0x2669e70, (VM: name=Windows, uuid=41562d70-d0a8-25bc-10ec-a3dc46b3d258)
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.751+0000: 24708: debug : virObjectUnref:135 : OBJECT_UNREF: obj=0x2669e70
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.751+0000: 24708: debug : virObjectUnref:137 : OBJECT_DISPOSE: obj=0x2669e70
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.751+0000: 24708: debug : virDomainDispose:225 : release domain 0x2669e70 Windows 41562d70-d0a8-25bc-10ec-a3dc46b3d258
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.752+0000: 24708: debug : virObjectUnref:135 : OBJECT_UNREF: obj=0x26693b0
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.752+0000: 24708: debug : virFileClose:72 : Closed fd 9
> 2012-09-30 17:59:15.752+0000: 24708: debug : virFileClose:72 : Closed fd 10
> error: Domain not found: no domain with matching name 'Windows'

It sounds like this particular migration attempt hit a case where qemu
failed to migrate, so libvirt aborted the migration (perhaps with a
confusing message, though).

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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