Re: [libvirt-users] Migrate VM's to different storage pool?

On 02/12/2013 06:22 AM, Jamie Fargen wrote: > Eric- [Please don't top-post on technical lists] > > Why wouldn't a 'virsh blockcopy --pivot domain src dest' be sufficient to > migrate the volumes to a new storage pool? It IS sufficient, as part of the sequence I documented here: >> >> # save off the persistent definition for later >> virsh dumpxml --inactive $dom > $dom.xml >> # make the guest transient >> virsh undefine $dom >> # remind myself which disks need migration >> virsh domblklist $dom >> # for each disk (such as "vda"), do a migration >> virsh blockcopy $dom $disk /path/to/new --wait --verbose --pivot >> # make the guest persistent again >> virsh define $dom.xml Or maybe I'm misunderstanding your question. Are you asking why blockcopy doesn't work with a persistent domain? And the answer to that is because as of at least qemu 1.4, there is no support for remembering the progress of a block copy across a domain restart; there have been patches proposed for qemu 1.5 that add a persistent bitmap, and there are plans to teach libvirt to use this new feature to allow 'virsh blockcopy' even for a persistent domain, so that you don't have to juggle through the steps of going to a transient domain just to do the blockcopy. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org