[libvirt] [patch v2 1/1] manual: Add virsh manual about specified migration host

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Jun 10 14:50:42 UTC 2014


On 06/09/2014 03:49 AM, Chen Fan wrote:
> the 'migration_host' description maybe have a bit of difficulty to
> understand for user, so add this manual for them.

s/maybe have a bit of difficulty/may be a bit difficult/

> 
> Signed-off-by: Chen Fan <chen.fan.fnst at cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  tools/virsh.pod | 12 +++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
> index 02671b4..7b30292 100644
> --- a/tools/virsh.pod
> +++ b/tools/virsh.pod
> @@ -1208,7 +1208,8 @@ such as GFS2 or GPFS. If you are sure the migration is safe or you just do not
>  care, use I<--unsafe> to force the migration.
>  
>  The I<desturi> is the connection URI of the destination host, and
> -I<migrateuri> is the migration URI, which usually can be omitted (see below).
> +I<migrateuri> is the migration URI for specifying which IP address/URI of the
> +destination host to tansfer migration data, which usually can be omitted (see below).

s/tansfer/transfer/

Actually, this was rather confusing to me. Would it be better to just
simplify this section to instead point to
http://libvirt.org/migration.html#uris, rather than trying to rehash
that information incompletely?

>  I<dname> is used for renaming the domain to new name during migration, which
>  also usually can be omitted.  Likewise, I<--xml> B<file> is usually
>  omitted, but can be used to supply an alternative XML file for use on
> @@ -1238,6 +1239,15 @@ seen from the source machine.
>  
>  When I<migrateuri> is not specified, libvirt will automatically determine the
>  hypervisor specific URI, by looking up the target host's configured hostname.
> +
> +For QEMU/KVM hypervisor, when I<migrateuri> is not specified, at first libvirt
> +will ask the destination side whether the optional "migration_host" is specified
> +or not, if the "migration_host" is specified, libvirt will use the specified
> +network for transferring migration data(the "migrateion_host" is useful when

s/migrateion/migration/

> +hosts has multiple network interface). if the "migrateion_host" is not specified

and again

> +too, libvirt will automatically determine the hypervisor specific URI, by looking
> +up the target host's configured hostname.

Sounds redundant with the previous paragraph left in place.

I'll propose a v3.

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

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