[libvirt-users] Deploying libvirt with live migration

[David Ehle]

I've run into the same scenario... I've often wondered if it wouldn't make 
sense to have a lock file or some other notification in place to let both 
hosts know who currently has "ownership" of the VM.

David.

On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Scott Baker wrote:

> I have two physical servers: Virt1 and Virt2. I'm setting up live migration 
> with CentOS 5.5 between the two. I've done this by NFS mounting /etc/libvirt 
> and /var/lib/libvirt/images on both servers. This is working well for me 
> except for one thing.
>
> I see the same list of VMs on each server (as expected), but each server 
> (Virt1 and Virt2) are able to start the same VM at the same time. This 
> obviously causes IP conflicts and thrashes the disk image. Is there a way to 
> tell my VM "cluster" that a VM is only allowed to be opened on one host at a 
> time?
>
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> Scott Baker - Canby Telcom
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