Re: [Libvir] save/restore support for KVM

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>- I append the domain's UUID at the end of the migration image. >> This doesn't affect KVM at all (it ignores the extra data). >> Does that seem reasonable? It's unclear how the saved image >> is supposed to get associated with a particular VM configuration >> without doing something like this. > >Actually I'd store the entire XML config appended to the end of the image. >Its quite possible the saved image may be restored on a different machine >so libvirt will need the XML config there & its not much work to >automatically >append it all & use it when restoring later. How does this (or even _does_ this) work in the Xen case? Does Xen save this info like UUID, name, etc. in the migration image?