Hi Michal,
How can we move this along as a patch to libvirt? Can we submit a patch
ourselves?
--
Noel
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Noel Burton-Krahn <noel(a)pistoncloud.com>
wrote:
In our case the network disk is available on the dest before we call
migration. It's an openstack volume mounted via ceph. If we disable the
copy-check in qemu_migration.c the migration works fine.
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On 20.03.2015 20:23, Noel Burton-Krahn wrote:
> > Hi Michal,
> >
> > I think issuing a libvirt migrate to a host where the network disks
> > don't already exist would be a prequisite failure. Libvirt can never
> > copy a network disk, but it shouldn't fail trying to migrate an existing
> > domain that contains a network disk. If a libvirt user wishes to
> > migrate a domain that contains a network disk, it's their responsibility
> > to ensure the disk exists before calling migrate.
>
> That's how it was back in the old days. Then libvirt introduced storage
> migration, but requiring users to pre-create storage on destination
> themselves. And just recently I taught libvirt to automatically
> pre-create the storage. However, not for all disk types.
>
> If a disk on destination is missing, it's likely broken guest ABI
> libvirt should have not allowed migration in the first place. How come
> the migration was allowed?
>
> Michal
>