Both --copy-storage-{all,inc} options require disk images to be present on destination host. --- tools/virsh.pod | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index fbde57f..0e7acfa 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -727,9 +727,12 @@ and I<--suspend> leaves the domain paused on the destination host. I<--copy-storage-all> indicates migration with non-shared storage with full disk copy, I<--copy-storage-inc> indicates migration with non-shared storage with incremental copy (same base image shared between source and destination). -I<--change-protection> enforces that no incompatible configuration changes -will be made to the domain while the migration is underway; this flag is -implicitly enabled when supported by the hypervisor, but can be explicitly +In both cases the disk images have to exist on destination host, the +I<--copy-storage-...> options only tell libvirt to transfer data from the +images on source host to the images found at the same place on the destination +host. I<--change-protection> enforces that no incompatible configuration +changes will be made to the domain while the migration is underway; this flag +is implicitly enabled when supported by the hypervisor, but can be explicitly used to reject the migration if the hypervisor lacks change protection support. I<--verbose> displays the progress of migration. -- 1.7.6.1