Zvi Dubitzky wrote: This is taken care of by the migration protocol. Essentially what happens is that you run a command like: # virsh migrate --live guest qemu+tls://dest.example.org/system And in the background, virsh connects to both the local, "source" machine, and the remote "destination" machine. It then transfers the XML from the source to the dest, starts up the "container" on the dest with the -incoming command-line arg, and then does the migration. The short of it is that yes, libvirt takes care of all of this behind the scenes. -- Chris Lalancette