On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 09:17:27AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
Libvirt tries to forbid migration onto the same host and it does that by checking if local and remote hostnames are the same and whether local and remote UUIDs are the same. Well, the latter makes sense but the former doesn't really because libvirtd can be running inside an UTS namespace and hostnames can appear the same on both sides of migration. On the other hand, host UUIDs are unique, so rely on them when trying to prevent migration onto the same host.
This check originates in commit 8654175c5b0c3db9e5f70907f102f0f900355d28 Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Date: Mon Jan 24 18:06:16 2011 +0000 Introduce migration cookies to QEMU driver We've always had both hostname and uuid checks here, as a way to prevent localhost-migration. The only way I can think to bypass the UUID check is to run a second libvirtd on the same host, but inside a container so you can change UUID or libvirtd.conf. At that point, you can set things up so that you are safe todo a local migration, so its ok to allow for that.
Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1639596
Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> --- src/qemu/qemu_migration_cookie.c | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
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