[libvirt-users] move VM disk images between storage pools on the same host

[Paul Raines]

Can you show me how one would use vol-download and vol-upload to do this?
I cannot figure it out from the docs.  What I have in the old directory
based storage pool is:

virsh # pool-info vmback
Name:           vmback
UUID:           7a8ab88b-42a9-f4c9-128e-83adea324b9a
State:          running
Persistent:     yes
Autostart:      yes
Capacity:       885.88 GB
Allocation:     65.57 GB
Available:      820.31 GB

virsh # vol-list vmback
Name                 Path
-----------------------------------------
lost+found           /vmback/lost+found
pool.xml             /vmback/pool.xml
ruby.img             /vmback/ruby.img
surfer-1.img         /vmback/surfer-1.img
webtemplate.img      /vmback/webtemplate.img

The new one (LVM) is:

virsh # pool-info vmpool1
Name:           vmpool1
UUID:           a95f6f30-b035-7750-6b7d-77953ee7d9af
State:          running
Persistent:     yes
Autostart:      yes
Capacity:       1.76 TB
Allocation:     0.00
Available:      1.76 TB

And I want to move the ruby domain (single disk file ruby.img) to it.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 11/07/2012 02:13 PM, Paul Raines wrote:
> >
> > I created a new LVM type storage pool on my server and would like to
> > move my VM disk volumes in a directory-based pool into this new pool.
> > But I cannot figure out how that is done.  I find plenty of information
> > on how to migrate live VM images from one host to another, but not on
> > how to just move one live from one storage pool to another on the same
> > host.
> >
> > If it cannot be done live, how an I do it non-live?  I guess non-live I
> > could clone, but that would change the MAC address.  Just seems that if
> > libvirt
> > can migrate live it should be able to move a VM between storage pools
> > on the same host even easier.
>
> Hmm - you have a good point - right now, 'virsh vol-create-from' and
> 'virsh vol-clone' only allow motion within a single pool, and not from
> one pool to another.  I guess you could use 'virsh vol-download' and
> 'virsh vol-upload' to move volumes from one place to another, although
> those APIs still lack the ability to cleanly state whether you are
> migrating metadata (what the host sees) or contents for conversion into
> a different format (what the guest sees).  At any rate, these commands
> would be useful on offline disks (and NOT for a disk image in active
> read-write use by any qemu guest).  I think there's a lot of work that
> could be done to improve matters with how we manage volumes and pools.
>
> Meanwhile, live storage migration IS possible, with libvirt 1.0.0 (now
> out) and qemu 1.3 (which will be released in December, or if you are
> comfortable building from qemu.git now), via the 'virsh blockcopy' command.
>
>
>
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