[Ovirt-devel] Re: are 'migration' between hosts working ?

[Ian Main]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:36:25 +0100
Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> wrote:

> pronix pronix wrote:
> > yes, it is working.
> > 
> > i have a question: should destroy domain on old host ,when i migrate
> > vm to new host, and create on new host ?
> > because after reboot vm come back to old host.
> > pardon my english :)
> 
> Well, that depends on what you mean.  Every time you shut down a guest, and
> start it again, it re-runs the algorithm to decide what the "best" host to start
> a guest is.  If the best host is still the "old" host, then yes, it will restart
> it over there.
> 
> If you really don't want it to start on the old host, you can mark the old host
> as "unavailable", which will make it automatically skip that host.
> 
> In any case, thanks for the bug fix.  Ian, can you give this a quick review/test
> of this patch, and then we can commit it?

Tested and pushed.  Sorry it took me a while, I had things in an awkward state for a
while there.

Thanks very much for the patch!  I'll make sure it's right in libvirt-qpid too
though I'm pretty sure it is as I had tested migration with storage attached.

	Ian