Re: [libvirt] Local qemu migration

The monitor socket location is different for qemu:///system than for qemu:///session (or when going between two different users' qemu:///session). But things like the VNC port do start to be an issue.

> Migration fundamentally requires that the two QEMU processes involved have > completely separate filesystem namespaces, which effectively means separate > hosts (or at least separate containers which is effectively the same thing) > >> Except the obvious testing case, there are other use cases that could be >> interesting: moving a running VM from system to session libvirt, or the >> other way around, or to a different user. > > Migrating from session to system libvirt or vica-verca isn't something > that is reasonable to support either because of the different privilege > levels. The session QEMU will require the disk images to be owned by > one user account, the system QEMU will require them to be owned by a > different user account. We can't chown the images to satisfy both the > system and session QEMU at the same time. This, coupled with the fact that we don't allow connection to a remote qemu:///session instance (right now, the RPC code assumes that it will only connect to qemu:///system), means that it is not possible to do live migration in or out of a session instance, regardless of whether it is on the same machine, and regardless of whether it is between the session libvirtd of two different users.

It might be possible to migrate to file (such as virsh save), then update permissions on the save file and other resources, then reload from that file; but it is not a live migration.