[libvirt-users] About live migration with snapshots

[Hubert Chiang]

Dear Eric,

Thanks for your tips and explanations.

I think there will be lots of works to do.

And I migrate VM with snapshot successfully by your tips.

Thank you so much. I am really appreciated.

Hubert


On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 03/20/2013 08:45 PM, Chiang Hubert wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to live migration with snapshots.
> >
> > But it doesn't work. It comes out a message "cannot migrate domain with 1
> > snapshots"
>
> Unfortunately, figuring out how to migrate snapshot information at the
> libvirt API level requires some engineering work - the current RPC
> protocol for migration is not set up to migrate an arbitrary amount of
> snapshots in a single call.
>
> On the other hand, if you are allowed to make more than one API call,
> the solution is already available; maybe we should patch virsh to learn
> how to make the series of API calls, to automate what I will describe
> below.
>
> >
> > Then I try to trace the code(Libvirt 0.9.8 to 1.0.3), I find out the code
> > in src/qemu/qemu_migration.c @ Line 1395 - 1440 (Libvirt 1.0.3)
>
> It's still unimplemented at the libvirt level, even in libvirt.git.
>
> >
> > It will check the VM which has snapshots or not.
> >
> > I just curious about this limitation, why the VM can't live migration
> with
> > snapshots?
>
> Doing it all in one RPC call would be a potential denial-of-service
> (RPCs are bounded in length to avoid consuming server resources, and
> taking lots of snapshots on the source could easily be made to exceed
> bounds).  If someone can design a way to set up a series of RPC
> handshakes, then we could do it at the libvirt level in a single API
> call, but I'm not sure it is worth it.
>
> >
> > What happen if I skip this check?
> >
> > Does it has any suggestion way or virsh command with options to do live
> > migration with snapshots?
>
> The existing solution at the management tool layer is to migrate the
> snapshot information first, and then to migrate the domain.  For each
> snapshot in 'virsh snapshot-list --name $dom', you will want to 'virsh
> snapshot-dumpxml $dom $name > file' on the source, then 'virsh
> snapshot-create --redefine $dom file' on the destination.  Next,
> determine 'virsh snapshot-current --name $dom' on the source, and use
> 'virsh snapshot-current $dom $name' on the destination to set it as
> current (if there is a current snapshot).  After the destination has all
> the snapshots, you then loop over 'virsh snapshot-delete --metadata $dom
> $name' on the source, at which point, live migration will now work.
>
> Patches to teach virsh how to do all this work in a single 'virsh
> migrate' are welcome.
>
> --
> Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
> Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
>
>
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